MUST OBEY LAWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 304, 23 December 1940, Page 6

MUST OBEY LAWS.

MR. FRASER'S WARNING. PENALTY OF DISOBEDIENCE. (PA.) GKEYMOUTH, Sunday. 'There must be discipline in Xew Zealand if it is to prosper, not the discipline of guns or the lash as in Germany, but self-imposed, intelligent discipline." said the Prime Minister, the Kt. Hon. P. Fraser, in a speech at Kunangu to-day. The laws of the land had to be observed by everyone and those elected to govern were not going to allow others to kick them around like a football \ Government that was not prepared* to enforce the laws of the land w«s not fit to govern.

We do not want to have to enforce tno laws against any section, but want your co-operation," he said. "If W e cannot have that the alternative w anarchv a state of affairs which brought Mussolini into power in Italy. Every step we have taken has been decided after the fullest consideration to be i n the best interests of the people. f ." W f " re " ot , g"'»J-' to allow anv sect.on deliberately to refuse to obev laws made for the benefit of all. If the trade unions or section* of then, or anv other «nwn««tion want to defy tbc (Jovernihem, u' S tO be «»'ort«natc for them. Wo are determined that all seeto co-ojicnue in the war effort." " Ual