OVERLOOKED BY GOVERNMENT
"The circumstances of many, mortgagors in the cities and to.wnß. are. just a3 precarious as those of the country mortgagors," declared' Mr. falter Nash, Labour candidate for the. Hutt seat,
■ when speaking before an audience of v- about- 50 "residents of Korokoro o» \ Monday evening. -~-•;"... .-..■•-..■. v . \ . Mr.-Nash criticised the amendments : made.to the Mortgagors' Belief Act during^ the final week of the Parliamentary session, and -.complained1 that this legislation, watched the interest of the rural mortgagor, and overlooked the city man. Just as much hardship and distress was being experienced by the city sind town, mortgagor as by the farmers, ho added, and he thought it was par- . UcularlyLunfair to limit the benefits o£ relief from rent and interest rates to . the farmers, and to restrict the benefit • of those Jwho were in some cases in most need of it. Mr. "Nash criticised the administration of. the Unemployment Amendment Act, and emphasised the dangers which lay in the most recent amendments concerning the employment of relief workers on private property, and dealt generally with Labour's intentions to adjust the social and industrial dislocations.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 121, 18 November 1931, Page 11
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185OVERLOOKED BY GOVERNMENT Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 121, 18 November 1931, Page 11
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