The Budget

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29272, 2 August 1960, Page 3

The Budget

Sir, —While agreeing in part with your correspondent ‘‘Far Back Dan,” respecting “the long wait for the accumulated age and other pensions, also it is damp and cold these nights without a fire,” I regret he has adopted the Nationalist propaganda of attacking Mr Nash. I take it that your correspondent is a lay student of the political and industrial movement as a hobby like myself, and in consequence is well aware of the deliberate attempt to delay the business of the House so that the Opposition can again endeavour to thrash the old bogy of “unfulfilled promises,” hence the delay in the pensioners’ payment as witnessed and read in this last week’s Parliamentary debates, unprecedented and shocking behaviour of the Leader of the Opposition and his colleagues who profess to endeavour to work in the interests of the economy of the country. The Government is striving to get the necessary amendment to allow the payments to be made this session. Who is responsible for the delay. Be fair, not Mr Nash.—Yours, etc, HERBERT E. BARNSLEY. August 1, 1960.

Sir, —When overseas markets are good the coimtry, under both Labour and National, carries an air of apparent prosperity, but when the same markets are depressed the reactions of both parties are similar; labouring under an outmoded economic system, developed at a time when witches were being burnt at the stake, they resort to tax and borrow, import restrictions, and higher bank interest rates in a desperate but futile attempt to obtain some measure of economic stability. It is obvious that under either National or Labour we can expect nothing but depreciation in our general living standards. — Yours, etc, JOHN FORSTER. July 30, 1960.