LABOUR POLICY

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1936, Page 6

LABOUR POLICY

CbNSERYATION '

WELLINGTON, November “1 have not Haid,:'at any timej that when the programme ’of the Labmft Goverment has, been completed, tpa v ,’,eiid|S^ > - Prim© Minister Rt. iHon; Mill. S a vage), v th “The Labour Party is not individual saving, and If Re records of sayings were search|jifirit: Would be fdim^ l *^i^^i6us.ads\oiFi s sui>"porters ofctEjaooui bare welf -’to. the frdnt in tlie practice bf : -thTOt£" ;< b : \ . “Moreover, the saviffgs ' of' th‘6 . people’-are in no ganger ut fill dfiddr the Labour Government. Our policy ‘is . to build, not to"destroy. ' We nfeah tb use tlie saving of the people, p/fus the public credit, for" "the deroldiffiehfc'lif tlie national assets, thus about a state of affairs ih -New 55pab ' land that, will enable the -peoplfe to.-., ( buy as Well as to produce. v ; ‘ u My -plain statement is this": The b average rindiVidwtlhas no bhqpe, tin. " : this tlielgraye, of saviiig X liclent to keep Mi'ini’ in %asohkhle ’comfort in old age, "without some fisft.'ancial support. This' fact mrist bVreal’ised, dnd, in thVfaee 'of incontrovertible truth, we must;establish a system ‘of collective saving for the purpose " o of wthich , : l '. will- bo iuiiversal in its application. ■- If there is a better idea hidden where, I should like-to see'someone unearth it.” ! . ‘ • '