LABOUR AND BANKING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15773, 14 November 1911, Page 6

LABOUR AND BANKING.

Pp.oiuhly Mr Hiram Hunter would be better employed in writing eulogies of tho Labour Party than ho is in writing denunciations of the Liberal Party. Of the former party he may be presumed to know something, but of the latter he obviously knows nothing, unless it is that its past achievements and its progressive proposals 6tand in the way of his entrance into Parliament. Tho letter he sends us this morning is merely a reiteration of his senseless jibes at Mr Ell and the Government. His grievance against the member for Christchurch South is that he will not advocate tho particular kind of State bank which Mr Hiram Hunter thinks in his innocence would supply all tho financial needs of the country. The only excuse it is necessary to make for Mr Ell is that he knows what is practicable and has not wasted his time or anyono else's time in discussing what is impossible. The Government is anathema to Mr Hunter mainly because it is tho Government and incidentally because it is not prepared to swallow all the nostrums which he imagines, perhaps honestly, would bo good for its political health. Wo confess that we sometimes grudge the space which Mr Hunter occupies in our correspondence columns, but if he will tell us somothing more definite about those "alleged farm labourers*'' whom the Government has cast upon the country and will give us an outline of his proposed State bank wo shall be glad to hear from him again.