UNITED PROMISES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 220, 4 September 1929, Page 9

UNITED PROMISES

A SUN OF BURNISHED GOLD BRILLIANCE ENDS IN A SHOWER OF SPARKS. MR. A. M. SAMUEL TWITS THE GOVERNMENT. IBy Telegraph—Special to "Tribune.’ I Parlt. Buildings, Sept. 4. “The people of this country have been looking at a sun of burnished gold and they have been blinded and dazzled by its rays,” declared Mr. A. M Samuel (Ref., Thames) in the House of Representatives yesterday when referring to the promises of the United p> tv at the last election. “Now th.it they have recovered their eyesight,” said Mr. Samuel, “they have found this brilliance was nothing but a mirage which is shivering in- the distance and getting further and further away every minute. The brilliancy has ended in a shower of sparks.” Following Mr. Mr. T. W. McDonald (United, Wairarapa) said that if there was any failure on the part of the Government to keep its promises, and he did not admit that there was or that there was likely to be, they would sink into insignificance alongside the failure of the Reform party to keep its election promises. Mr. '"McDonald Instanced the failure of the Reform Government to reform the Upper House, remarking that it Lad postponed the bringing into operation of the Act providing for an elective chan.her on the principle of proportional representation. The Hon. Downie Stewart: That was a party arrangement. Mr McDonald: It might have been at the time, but the arrangement, did nol continue in force until 1928. The Reform party made manj’ promises but they were nothing more than promises.