Labour’s Prospects In U.K. And N.Z.
Sir.—“ National This Time" is astray. Labour could not do the Westport Harbour improvements as it had to cope with financial chaos inherited from the Tories. The refiner}’ was to conserve overseas funds. The Tories sold their
B.P. shares under pressure from vested interests. Why blame Labour for miners leaving the mines when the Tories are allowing the Auckland Gas Company to import Australian coal because of allegations that our coal was poor? The British Labour Government does not encourage dumping, but it does believe that the housewife should have a choice of butter at a reasonable price to fit the family purse. Mr Holyoake is indeed as good as his word as his Government is certainly a private-enterprise one as the glassworks were taken over by overseas interests and trading banks operate savings banks when trustee savings banks are refused cheque facilities.—Yours, etc., DISILLUSIONED NATIONALIST. February 9, 1966.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30981, 10 February 1966, Page 12
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