HOLLAND MEMORANDUM

Evening Star, Issue 24116, 10 February 1942, Page 6

HOLLAND MEMORANDUM

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS RAISED REPORTS FROM SERVICE CHIEFS (Special.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 10. The House /of Representatives resumes in o| itii session this afternoon, and, in accordance with the Prime Minister’s promise, the memorandum of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Holland) on New Zealand’s war effort will be discussed. Though a great deal of public interest has been aroused in - connection with the memorandum, the most important questions'raised in it are not likely to be debated in public, even with the radio broadcasting cut out. The document has become highly secret, because it has been subject to reports from ■ service beads on many of the subjects which Air Holland raised. The points which the Government may agree to have debated in public with or without radio broadcasting are of importance, but will fail to indicate the full scope of the memorandum.

It is thought that there will be public discussions of such subjects as the morale of the New Zealand forces, essential industries (involving the whole questions of appeals), the organisation of women power, the 40-hour week, a demand for an overhaul of the Government’s internal expenditure, control over aliens, strikes, and the necessity for more direct Aliuisterial contact with members of the public directly concerned in the Dominion’s war effort.