BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 124, 21 November 1931, Page 15

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

MR. FRASER'S CONDEM

NATION

"All the Coalition candidates who have taken part in tho election so far," said Mi1. P. Frascr, Labour candidate for Wellington Central, on Thursday, "join in the chorus that they want good business management of the country's finances. Mr. Coates said the other day, after 16 years of Reform administration and three years of United and United-Reform administration, that 30 per cent, of the farmers aTO bankrupt, that 40 per cent, are likely to become bankrupt if help is not given, and that 30 per cent, are solve.nt. That is what we have from Mr. Coates after all those years of business management." Mr. Fraser ridiculed some acts of railway and public works administration, including the importation of railway locomotives from Great Britain, which on their arrival in the Dominion could not be used in the tunnels. The railways had been loaded up in that way with unnecessary costs, and the result was that it was impossible to make them pay, and that hundreds of men had had to bo sacked. Referring to the Auckland Railway St.al.ion, he said it would have been all right in New York or London, but it was aridiculous waste of money in Now Xealiind. Over a quarter of a million pounds had been spent when a far smaller sum would have sufficed.

The candidate also instanced the breakdown of Arapuni in further condemnation of the Reform-United "business methods," and declared that millions had been thrown away, and that tho trouble had not ended yot. Then there was the huge sum lost on soldier settlement, and the luxurious tourist hostel, the Chateau Tongariro, which he described as "a white elephant."