REMOVAL OF CONTROLS

Evening Star, Issue 25948, 13 November 1946, Page 3

REMOVAL OF CONTROLS

MR SEMPLE POINTS TO CONSEQUENCES EXAMPLE OF UNITED STATES (P.A.) AUCKLAND, November 12. To the accompaniment of cheers', cries of “ Good Old Bob,” and the strains of ‘ Waltzing Matilda,’ played by the Auckland Watersiders’ Band, the Minister of Works, Mr Semple, entered the orowded Town Hall tonight to complete his electioneering visit to Auckland. There was an audience of 'some 3,000 people, nearly all supporters, which had dwindled, slightly before the Minister had finished a two-hour speech. Mr Semple said the National Party stood for the removal of control, just exactly as the money gangsters had done in the United States, where costs had soared within 24 hours and people had to draw on their savings to meet current expenses. If controls were lifted in New Zealand the same thing would happen. The Minister’s .address followed closely the lines of others he had given earlier in the campaign. He said social security could be wrecked without repealing the legislation, by allowing a vast army of unemployed to develop. The scheme qould be maintained only by keeping full employment and by increasing production. This was what his 10-year development plan ivas designed to achieve.