The Election— MR KENT SPEAKS ON “SLUMP” ECONOMY

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1949, Page 6

The Election — MR KENT SPEAKS ON “SLUMP” ECONOMY

The claim that New Zealand had had a slump whenever the “Tory element” had, for any length of time, had control of its economy, was the principal theme of the address given at Kaiata last night by the Labour candidate for the Westland electorate, Mr J. B. Kent.

The speaker dealt at length with the slump and said that today it was a case of either going ahead or going backward. The Nationalist argument finally added up to a theory/Mr Kent said, that prosperity did not pay. There was a fair attendance at the meeting, Mr J. Johnston being in the chair. At the conclusion of the meeting. Mr Kent was accorded a vote of confidence, on the motion of Messrs Cuthbert and Baillie. 500 HEAR MR FRASER AT NAPIER MEETING NAPIER, November 8 (P.A.). — The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, addressed a crowd of 500 at Napier tonight, He was given an attentive hearing, without a single interjection.

Mr Fraser said that every assertion he had made about the fallacies in the National Party’s platform was based on actual statements that had been made by the Nationalist members of Parliament. The Prime Minister contended that the statements, which he had on record, left no doubt about the real intentions of ..the Opposition. Mr Fraser referred to the 10-point welfare programme put forward by President Truman last week, and he said that every one of these points has been already implemented by Labour in New Zealand.