LOSING CONFIDENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 83, 7 April 1936, Page 16

LOSING CONFIDENCE

"LANG OVER AGAIN"

Mr. H. S. S. Kyle (Nationalist, Riccarton) referred to a statement made by Mr. E. J. Howard, the Government member for Christchurch South, that supporters of the Labour Party were going to be called on shortly to stand together more than ever they had had to do in the past, and that the same thing that happened to Mr. Lang in New South Wales was going to happen in New Zealand.

It was no wonder, he added, that people were losing confidence in Parliament. He also referred to another statement made by Mr. Howard that one-third of the members of Cabinet had been in gaol. That sort of thing, he declared, made people apprehensive. The malicious statements came from the Government side of the House, not from the Opposition side.

The Prime Minister: You are saying it now.

, Mr. Kyle: All right, Mr. Prime Minister, you can look after yourself.

"I can do that, and I'm doing it now," retorted the Prime Minister, with some warmth.

Mr. Kyle said that New Zealand had gone through the greatest economic blizzard of all time, and Dr. Copland had been the adviser for both Australia and New Zealand.

Mr. T. H. McCombs (Labour, Lyttelton): He was sent here by the Bank of New South Wales.

Mr. Kyle agreed that that was so and ■ added that it was a pity there were not a few more men like Mr. Davidson, the general manager of the Bank of New South Wales, who was the strong man of Australia. When it came to the banking question, it seemed as if any demagogue could come in and make laughter about what the bankers were doing.

"We are told that the Bill has got to go through tonight in order to save New Zealand. I say that New Zealand has been saved," Mr. Kyle added.