ECONOMY MEASURES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 70, 22 February 1932, Page 6

ECONOMY MEASURES.

We are told by our Parliamentary correspondent that the session which opens this week is expected to end by March 31, and that the Government will restrict its programme entirely to those measures which it is believed will help the country to “weather the financial storm.” The unemployment question will be one of the most important matters before Parliament and will be dealt with on more comprehensive lines than has hitherto been deemed necessary. Economy measures will be submitted by the Cabinet, and whatever action may be taken to rehabilitate the financial affairs of this Dominion it is hoped that there will be a far less display of the Party spirit than was in evidence in Parliament last year, and that politicians will, on this occasion, talk less and show a more marked disposition to push on with the business of the country. There is too great a tendency among pre-sent-day politicians to court popularity instead of taking the more straightforward and honourable course of voting for what is best for the national welfare. Economy, it is understood, will have an important place in the Government’s programme, and all will be asked to share in the sacrifice. Though we may expect all kinds of protests and objections from the Socialist Party,, the great bulk of the people, with no ulterior motive in view, will heartily commend the Government if it brings into force at the earliest possible moment a clear cut policy which will be the stepping stone to national prosperity.