MINISTERS, RACES AND STATE CARS
WELLINGTON, This Day (P.A.).' -—One had only to see in Christ-church,.-when the races were on, the beautiful Chryslers and uniformed chauffeurs and honourable gentlemen who sit in Government front benches, with Homburg hats and striped trousers, to realise the waste that was going on, said Mr J. R. Hanan (Opposition, Invercargill) .in the House of Representatives this morning when the Budget debate was continued. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr W. E. Parry: I don’t believe that. Mr Hanan said that not so long ago a Labour Party bazaar was held in Invercargill. The Minister of Finance, Mr Nash, attended, and
went in a special chartered plane. Only 60 people attended the bazaar. That sort of thing was going on in the country when an example should be set. Joy leading people away from extravagance, he added. “It seeps down through the community and has .a- bad influence on the body politic,” said Mr Hanan. The Minister .of Finance, Mr Nash: . The member knows that the Minister did many other things down there. The debate was interrupted by the luncheon adjournment at 1 p.m.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 September 1949, Page 4
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