MR. SAVAGE IN ENGLAND

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 189, 7 May 1937, Page 12

MR. SAVAGE IN ENGLAND

Statements Criticised by Mr. Doidge “HECTORING NOTE” SEEN IN SOME REMARKS Dominion Special Service. Auckland, May 6. The first public utterance of the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, iu Great Britain, was frankly criticised by Mr. F. W. Doldge, when speaking to supporters of the National Party in the Eden electorate to-night. “If there are more like it we shall expect to see issued a volume entitled 'The Indiscretions of Mr. Savage Abroad,’ ” lie said. Mr. Doidge said that to people at Home Mr. Savage had declared: “We are determined to increase trade. We are not going to be harnessed to the chariot wheels of any country.” “Wffiit does Mr. Savage mean by that?” said Mr. Doidge. "Britain U the country into which we pour our primary products. Britain takes 90 per cent, of all we export. Without a sheltered market in Britain we should starve. Antagonise the British market and we annihilate the primary producer in New Zealand.’’ “We aim to have our owu monetary system in New Zealand,” says Mr. Savage. No one has yet succeeded in obtaining from Mr. Savage a lucid explanation of what his monetary policy means. Mr. Nash has ridiculed social creditities and Mr. Semple declares that only a fool believes that money can be turned like sausages out of a machine. "People at Home will be reminded by this utterance that Mr. Savage is the Prime Minister who pledged himself to create and manufacture money,” continued Mr. Doidge. “His latest declaration will add to the mystification of Miucing Lane where, in the course of the next three years, we have to seek £17,000,000 in loan redemption.” Mr. Doidge said that Mr. Savage’s suggestion that the Empire had mishandled mandated territories would cause surprise in view of the fact that his Government’s administration of Samoa had so lately been the subject of criticism at Geneva. “There is a hectoring note in Mr. Savage’s observations about raising the status of the worker,” said Mr. Doidge. “Iu Britain it has long been an accepted tenet that ultimately and fundamentally the objects of all honest political endeavour in whatever country must be the raising of the standard of life. As Mr. Savage becomes better acquainted with the statesmen of SL Stephen’s he may develop a little political modesty. “Mr. Savage found it necessary to declare that there was no dynamite in his pocket. The trouble is that Mr. Savage does not know dynamite—least of all political dynamite—when he sees it.”