NO WINGS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 42, 18 August 1939, Page 6

NO WINGS

A UNITED PARTY

Because Its other prophecies had been falsified the National Party was attempting through scare-mongering tactics to suggest repudiation by the Government, said Mr. D. W. Coleman (Government, Gisborne). He had been actively connected with the Labour movement in New Zealand for the past 37 years and he had never heard one responsible member of that movement advocate repudiation of New Zealand's overseas debt. "In the Labour Party there are no wings," he declared, to an Opposition interjection. "We are a united' body. We are entitled to differ and we all differ at one time or another. We are not simply yes-men like the followers of the Leader of the Opposition, who have got to say yes to what certain influences outside the House say. We are endeavouring to see that New Zealand is governed in a way that will bring happiness and contentment to its people." ' The Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes (National, Hurunui) What about the Easter conference? Mr. Coleman: The Easier es*ix'erenee is a representative body of the "Labour movement-^ Hew Zealand and we are not asb/yi*ed, and never have been asha*s«d, of what is done there. It is ms,fe public to the people of New Zealand, unlike the conference of the National Party. All that Mr. Lee had advocated was a change in the present financial system. He had pointed out that New Zealand would cease to be self-govern-ing if she had to legislate at the dictates of the financial magnates. She could not borrow her way. out of debt. The moneylenders had always been the enemies of the people. New Zealand had been borrowing since 1850 and the present Government had been forced to borrow more to pay .off the debts incurred by its predecessors. If New Zealand's credit abroad had been damaged, the National Party was largely responsible because of the statements made by its members, and In the Press. There had been many Wild and extravagant statements designed to score of! ' the Government, and the Opposition had done nothing to help Mr. Nash in. his negotiations at Home.