WORKING FOR LABOUR

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1928, Page 8

WORKING FOR LABOUR

"As in the case of a certain car," remarked Mr. E. J. Howard (Christehurch South), in the House of Representatives last night, in trying to point out the faults of the Eeform Government, *'one cannot quite put one's fingers on the trouble, which seems to be all over the machine—a screw loose, a bolt ajar, or something rattling." One wrote t,o a Minister, he said, and got a reply back after a considerable time from another Minister, signed per, for, or on behalf of; his colleague." While such things were going on throughout the country, said 'the speaker, the Opposition did not require to make many speeches in the recess. Ministers had had a great deal to say during the recess, but the members of the Labour Party had not deemed it necessary to do so. There was no need; the Government was doing the work for them. • , .'■■'•.■ The Hon. "W. Noswortey: "You are lying low." "The Ministers thcinselv.es know 'they are on the defensive," declared the speaker. "The Keiorm ship is'over-loaded—top-heavy. I am not going to say site will sink, but if she does not I. am sorry for Few Zealand, (toud laughter.) If she does not smash tip up at the coming election, and the country has to face another torn'of office under the Reform Government, I am sorry for New Zealand. I can quite understand mob psychology, and it is possible that at the election the people may be persuaded by huge advertisements that we have turned the corner and that everything is right. Person-" ally I don't believe it is within the power of the Reform Party to persuade the country that everything is right with the Reform administration."