CABINET AT WORK

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 13, 13 December 1932, Page 6

CABINET AT WORK

RE GULAR f PROGRAMME TO BE

PREMIER REBIgg; TO LABOUR

/d v Telegraph—Special to Standard.; (By 1 1 g WELLINGTON, Dec. 12.

“We are starting on our programme of work,” remarked the Prime Mitns°er (lit! Hon. G. W. Forbes) when informing the “Standard’s” correspondent that Cabinet had commenced its HoofirHTK “We will continue a regular programme of meetings tiil near Christmas, take a little spell over the holidays and resume immediately af The comment of the Leader of the Opposition (Mi- H. E. Holland) on the session’s work was brought to the notice of Mr Forbes, who declared that Mr Holland, who had declined an opportunity once offered him of JOimnß in an effort to rehabilitate the Dominion and take his share of Cabinet responsibility for necessary’ measures, was using his freedom for criticism in a way which could not help in the great task Cabinet is now getting time to undertake. . “Mr Holland,” he continued, “affects to believe that the amendment to the Finance Bill moved by his deputy contained an effective policy, but most people know that it was a political move by those to whom political credit is still of more importance than anything else. All possible expedients and remedies are catalogued in the amendment which the House rejected, but oils can conceive how, in time to come, whatever policy the' Government evolves to deal with the economic position, the Labour Opposition hope to be able to point to some item in their long catalogue as embodying the principles adopted. They hope to be able to say: ‘We told you so early last December,’ or, as an alternative, if we adopted any one of the remedies enumerated their policy will be to obiect that there were much better ones ‘included which they preferred. , . , , ... . “The tone of their whole criticism has never been helpful and it is hopeless to expect co-operation of any kind from the Labour Party. My own experience of inviting them to co-operate is that they utilise their opportunities to secure material for party attacks on the Government.”