"ASKING FOR THE MOON"
"When I first became Minister, the Trades Hall officials thought that they only had to ask for the moon and they would get it," said the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, speaking 'at a farewell social to him given by the East Christchurch branch of the Labour Party on Saturday evening, reports the "Press." Outlining the 'difficulties which always confronted a Minister of he said that at first ho had seemed to clash with everybody. With the trade union officials "the sky was the limit." However, New Zealand now had a lot to be thankful for—if the Government had not been able to satisfy everybody it had fulfilled every promise it was possible to fulfil in one year, he claimed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1937, Page 15
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