POLITICAL VERSION

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 57, 5 September 1945, Page 6

POLITICAL VERSION

"It was untrue, and he knows it was untrue," said Mr. K. J. Holyoake (Nat;onal, Pahiatua) in the Budget debate "in the House of Representatives last night, when he took exception to the Prime Minister's political rendering of the Little Red Riding Hood story at a meeting in Christchurch. What he particularly resented was the suggestion that the "old wolf of Toryism" was ready to spring out and destroy what had been done in New Zealand in the last ten years. Mr. Holyoake suggested that it ought to be beneath the dignity of any member, much dess the Prime Minister to lay such a charge at the door o± any political party. When the Acting Leader of the House (Mr. Nash) raised the point ol order that no member could accuse another of saying something which he knew was untrue, Mr. Speaker agreed that this was unparliamentary. Mr Holyoake withdrew the phrase, but added that the Prime Minister knew what he had said was misleading and incorrect. Mr. Fraser in a broadcast statement prior to last election, had quoted half a sentence from the National Party's programme, stopping at a comma, to suggest that if it became the Government the Opposition would not operate the social security system. If he had read on, added Mr. Holyoake, he would have been able to show that the Opposition favoured., many measures of social security. There was a vast difference between the Labour policy of undermining the foundations of free enterprise and the Opposition's policy of social legislation as against the Socialistic plans of the Government. ■.

RED RIDING HOOD STORY