NEW ZEALAND

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 17, 20 July 1931, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND

UNDER NIEMEYER PLAN

SAVAGE ONSLAUGHT

SYDNEY "LABOUR DAILY"

"ATROCIOUS CONDITIONS"

(United Press Association—By Electric Tela- . grapli—Copyright.) (Received 20th July, 11 a.m.)] ! SYDNEY, This Day. The "Labour Daily," in a fronts page feature article, headed "Nie>* meyerism in New Zealand," says:—< "Were there a Labour Government in New Zealand. the Australian, Tory, Press would reek with malediction' and lamentation regarding the deplorable position there financially) in every direction that counts. How could it be otherwise when the Dominion owes £168 per head of population against £165 per head of tha Common wealth? ' "New Zeal/.nd conditions under] the Niemeyer Plan are more atrocious than the worst we have seen in. the Commonwealth. Because a deficit of £5,000,000 faced the Forbes Government the Civil Service, one* ninth of the adult population, was so reduced that one-third of' the missing revenue was abstracted from its members, and still there remained a deficit of £1,900,000. "For the first time in the history of the New Zealand Parliament the gag had to be used to rush ruthless stuff through. Riots among the hordes of unemployed have been common, the severity of the New, Zealand winter being appalling tq empty stomachs and indifferent clothing and bedding. * Statistics placci the unemployed at 100,000. Busit ness gets worse and worse, despitej wholesale wages-slashing. The credhj of the country is bad, and loan' money refuses to flow to New Zea-*, land, even with its slavish adoption! of the Niemeyer outlook."