IN THE COMMONS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1936, Page 3

IN THE COMMONS

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. -Tr-uv R.UpjSY, “November 4., 5 ; The; "teiiiis? flf , : the official Labour am end merit .to '•£.the •-.A ddr e ss-i nR ep I,\ in'the are : “M* we "regret "that ' your : Majesty s advisers fail;'to- recognise that under the existing capitalistic .system the present l improvement in trade and industry -is :■ largely > stimulated .b.Y the world’: rape’ : ih' n arniariients and that 1 it can .only be, temporary; that g 1 ■; tardy’, acknowledgement 1 of- ,' .the . deterioration in the physical .fitness Of the nation, which f s -due;-ipamlyr to;-: long and. continued unemployment, -Jow wages, and consequent malnutrition;,' they.' are continuing to enforce the' means . test 'which' intensifies' -tliis , deterioration. aridir tri" neglect the .-problems in.,thoseareas'which have been most severely affected, and that they have no proposalsV for making fundamental changes" in the basis of society which are-yrieoessaj^yyin, I :order to create a 'Bbcidlisti in which this fnlh'rOsources of th enation shal 1 ibe' ■ utilised IJor the benefit of the community as a whole.” .