TREACLE AND FLIES!
MP FORBES ON LABOR’S PROMISES. RULE BY LABOR WOULD BE WORSE THAN SLUMP! PEOPLE'S SAVINCS WOULD BE CONTROLLED. } (Press Association S CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 7 1 “God help New Zealand if, rrs ~ result of the election, a Labor Government is given control of national finance and administrative affairs fr> r the. next four years,” said Mr-Forbes at Oxford, in his own electorate, tonight. ”Jt will mean,” lie continued, “worse disaster than the severe depression from which the country has emerged, it will involve the control of the hanking machinery of the Dominion and the savings of the people. The people must face .that prospect. A more serious issue wars never submitted to the electors of New Zealand.” ■ I Mr Forbes said -the position to-day Hi was that, on the one hand, the electors had experienced a Government which had proved its courage and ability to face realities : on .the other side, there was the Labor Party, with no experience of administrative affairs, hut with a fantastic experimental. financial policy. There were, of course, other parties in the field, but the issue was really between the iGovcernnint and Labor.e lie likened Labor’s--promises to “spreading treacle for flies. 5
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12704, 8 November 1935, Page 4
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