A SCATTER-CASH POLICY

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1924, Page 5

A SCATTER-CASH POLICY

P?om»ed ,in ; the House: of iCesenfltives early this ..morning-.-- that when the, Labour Parly assumed office if would eiideavocr to distribute the wealth bf-tJib h The Prime' ;MinMer:.^Evidently,' the honourable member-does not know that the .wealth is better distributed in Ne\vZealand to-day, than'anywhere else,'.' It iT s ,^ ra°rdix?™*:%. said,-; 5 that' th'ev 'should hear such objections to reduction ; m taxation as had been raised -during ! the evening.. '.'I-iwpuld'.nevef-haye. believed it was possible," he said,- "that: nearly half, a Parliament. would 'object to the: reduction of'taxation in the way Iwe have heard. •; tonight..;.: |rhpM; this Government-will never develop--a'^scat-ter-east policy./: That seems.to meto be: what is being; asked -for—plenty of .money to squander,'it"does' not matter who finds'it 6r'"who' payOoiriC.'Tbat" is what we have been contending against .all through the session.- We want' to' I keep our expenditure..,within-.:.'dur"ni-: come. - . " '„■-.*', "■■■' '■' ■ Mr. Monteith -; "EookTtiie- workers.'':' Mr._ Massey: -"The honourable gentleman is not^a..worker,....and does not know." „, v '. „,','