LABOUR'S CAPACITY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 227, 24 September 1943, Page 6

LABOUR'S CAPACITY

IN PEACE AND WAR DEFENCE BY MR. MASON "The Government has made something besides mistakes, and it is entitled to remind the electors of the difference in the condition of the people to-day as compared with the days prior to its taking office, said the Minister of Education, Mr. Mason, Labour candidate for Auckland Suburbs, when speaking at New Lynn.

"We don't want the time to come again when the fashionable footwear will be white sandshoes made in Japan," he said. "In a new land free from the disabilities of the old countries we should be able to build up a great future. Labour has proved its capacity to rule successfully in both peace and war, and I ask that you give it the opportunity to continue to lead New Zealand along the path of peace." Answering an interjector, Mr. Mason said that he was well aware of the party's pledges regarding finance. "Let us have no misunderstanding about that," he continued, "for I know Mr. Lee very well, and we had certain ideas which we often discussed. We realised the necessity of circulating money when it was needed. But he also knows well the impossibility and danger of circulating a limitless amount. There are some people who have the ridiculous and unrestrained idea that money is the beginning and end of all things. It is in his desire to blind the real reason for his expulsion from the Labour party that Mr. Lee now plays the money question to this section. But Mr. Lee has-no illusion about its falsity. Besides this, he has tried to create religious dissension, and other dissensions too."