CREATING DISCONTENT

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 63, 12 September 1945, Page 9

CREATING DISCONTENT

MEMBER'S ALLEGATION

Persistent attempts by the National Party, both inside and outside the House, to create discontent in the minds of returned service personnel were alleged in the House of Representatives last evening by Mr. D. W. Colcman (Government, Gisbornc), speaking m the Budget debate. His assertion brought a"response of "Utter nonsense from Mr. W. S. Goosman (National, Waikalo), and Mr. M. H. Oram (National, Manawatu) asked for specific examples,.

No country in the world had done so much for returned service men and women as New Zealand, said Mr. Coleman, and its efforts were appreciated to the full. The Opposition claimed that the mufti allowance of £25 was insufficient, but after the 1914-18 war the allowance was £s—and a serviceman had to hand in his overcoat to get Mr. Coleman drew attention to all that had been done and was being done by the Rehabilitation Department, and said that instead of trying to sow discontent the Opposition should give the credit that was- due. In spite of all the commitments for rehabilitation, gratuities, and deferred nay. the Opposition cried out for a reduction in taxation as soon as the Japanese had surrendered. The Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Holland): Australia must be wrong. Mr. Coleman said he was sure the people of New Zealand would endorse the statement of the Minister of Finance that no tax reduction that i would endanger social security or rei habitation would be made.