NATIONAL PARTY MEETING

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 243, 11 July 1938, Page 5

NATIONAL PARTY MEETING

Mr. Monk At Ihakara Dominion Special Service. Levin, July 9. Mr. S. A. Bro.adbeit occupied the chair at a National Party meeting at Ihakara wren Mr. G. A. Monk, National Party candidate for Otaki electorate, addressed the electors of that district. The Labour Party was never tired of tellmg how good times- were in the Dominion, as though the country hud never seen prosperous times before, Mr. Monk said. He ventured to say that the decade from 1920-30 saw times superior to those now bing enjoyed. The slump period apparently began the year No. 1 in their calendar. If the Socialists held a fool-proof plan to obviate any depression, they should be ashamed of their crocodile tears of the want and misery during that time, and it showed callousness in the highest degree to allow the suffering through those years when they had a cure. The Labour Party had been asked to help form a National Government and had refused. Referring to the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple, and his outcry about railways begun and stopped, he said he would remind Mr. Semple that the Government that stopped those works was kept in office by the Labour vote.