LABOUR & FINANCE

Grey River Argus, 25 February 1943, Page 3

LABOUR & FINANCE

MR BARNARD REPLIES TO MR. BARCLAY. NAPIER, Feb. 19. In connection with the statement bv Mr. Barclay (Minister for Agriculture) at Hikurangi, in which he is reported as having said “1 have no time for the ‘rats’ who went outside the Party. I do not believe in the old monetary system but rather in a m'ddle course which the Government is now trying to steer in war finance, stabilisation and Social Security, Mr tv E Barnard (Member for Napier) has made the following remarks;— “If the Minister feels that his job and seat are in danger, he ought not to “at excited about it. especially when there is a body of wrathful women awaiting him on his return to Wellington concerned, not over nortfolios. but the price ot food. It Mr Barclay is worried about tne nolitical machinery, more and more people are troubled over the icieals and over the policies that are likely to eive effect to them. “Emerson once advised us to hiten our waggon to a star. Mr. Barclay seems rather concerned with keeping his waning star hitched to a political waggon. He admits that, the Government is now a ‘middle-of-the-rOao Party I would remind him that it was not this gospel that put. Labour into power in g 1935 and in 1938, nor is it a message for which people are lookmg in these portentous times, concluded Mr. Bernard.