REPLY TO CRITICS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 230, 28 August 1937, Page 9

REPLY TO CRITICS.

RT. HON. M. .T. SAVAGE

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 27

“Tt seems to me slump prophecies nre about as common in New Zealand just now as noxious weeds,” said Rt. Hon. AI. J. Savage in an interview today. “Fortunately there is a complete answer to the ‘croakers.’ who are doing a disservice to their fellow citizens. The country is more prosperous to-day than it has been for many years, and there is no evidence whatever of an impending slump. “As some people for reasons that may. not be disinterested may attempt to deny the plain fact let' me state again. with emphasis, that New Zealand’s prosperity under the Labour Government 1“ substantial, extensive, firm and, what is more, the economic barometer is still rising. Even when critics of the Government are compelled to honesty to admit that things arc better, they sav ‘it’s all too good to he true and cannot last.’ Fortunately the majority of the people are quite capable of believi.mHhe evidence of their own senses? and they are not likely to have much patience with certain [T™ people who refuse to enjov the sunshine and find pleasure only ill pi edicting wind and rain.