WELLINGTON SOUTH

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 123, 20 November 1931, Page 4

WELLINGTON SOUTH

MR. M'KEEN AT OHIRO BAY

The claim made by Mr. W. Appleton that the return of businessmen to Parliament would mean safety; and stability was dealt' with by Mr. E. M'Keen, Labour candidate for Wellington South, while speaking to a meeting of 50 electors at Ohiro Bay last evening. '. The extravagance in administration, amounting to criminal waste, which had been shown by the Beforrn and United Governments— £4,000,000 in soldier settlement schemes, further millions sunk in hydro-electric schemes, & 7,000,000 ia railways—was anything but a credit to the business ability of the Government. Labour's ability to govern could not possibly be worse than that of Reform, United, or the Coalition Governments. Mr. M'Keen dealt with education expenditure, and replied to Mr. Appleton's statement that no essential educational facilities had been or would be interfered with. This was contrary to the actual position, as capitation grants had been reduced by £1000, salaries and house allowances for secondary schools by £10,000, books for Native schools by £400, and the welfare education side by £1800. All-round reductions were still going on. Mr. M'Keen dealt with Labour's policy for industrial development, and at the close of the meeting was accorded a vote of thanks "and confidence. Mr. H. Norman presided.