"COMIC SUPPLEMENT"
NATIONAL MANIFESTO
"The comic supplement" was how Mr. P. M. Butler; Labour candidate for WeDington Suburbs,, described the National Party's manifesto at his meeting at Mornington last night. ' The. programme" set out 21 points, said-Mr: Butler. He did not know exactly why the Government selected that number. ' The Government said, "We have built, a bridge, and its arches are sound. The National Government's "policy1 will be to preserve the foundations on which these arches rest. They must not be' undermined by extravagant and' impossible promises." Mr. Butler said, he should, say that the arches were fallen arches. As for the extravagant and impossible promises the Government talked about, an analysis, for example, of the money that had been wasted on railway lines that had- not been completed would be illuminating. . "It is "a most peculiar programme," added Mr. .Butler. "The Government must, think we are; .a most peculiar people. The manifesto reminds me of the' song, 'Happy Days are • Here Again, the Skies are Blue Again;' But "are they? I think ' the Government is suffering from abysmal ignorance,' or else it has underrated the intelligence of the people. lam sure the intelligence of the people of New Zealand-is not so Ipw as the Government by its' policy. !has rated it."
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 105, 30 October 1935, Page 4
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