DOMINION’S FUTURE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 232, 31 August 1937, Page 9

DOMINION’S FUTURE

HON. A. HAMILTON’S VIEW. REPLY TO PREMIER. Per Press Association. INVERCARGILL, Aug. 30. “The Prime Minister takes exception to those persons who issue a note of warning about the public expenditure, high taxation and soaring costs taking place in New Zealand to-day,” said the Leader of the Opposition (Hon. A. Hamilton), in an address at Wyndham to-night. “He goes so far as to call them ‘croakers.’ In my judgment the Prime Minister himself is New Zealand’s leading ‘croaker.’ “He can see no good accomplished by the pioneers and public men of the past. Everything in the past lias been wrong and he himself is the Heaven-sent deliverer to make New Zealand a paradise of the Pacific. “Many of us may he excused for feeling anxious about the future of New Zealand under Labour’s new philosophy. Mr Savage’s Government is fortunate in being in office during a period of high prices, and he delights in making comparisons to-day with conditions during the slump period, when our export income was little more than half what it is today. It is he who has a slump bug j of the noxious weed type. “For 50 years before the advent of Mr Savage’s Government the country has been one of the soundest and most progressive in the world. He refuses to acknowledge this fact. Let him cheer up and see at least some good in the history and development of his adopted country.”