Policies Compared

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6616, 22 May 1928, Page 6

Policies Compared

As' for the question ol policies, the United Party, by way of retort to the jeers of Ministers, very well might ask the Government where it lias its policy hidden away and when it will be produced. Previous to the last general election, now nearly three years ago, the Prime Minister let it be known that until be obtained a direct mandate from the electors he would merely continue to administer the policy of his great predecessor in office. The electors gave him an overwhelming mandate at the polls a majority nearly as big as the largest Mr. Seddon ever enjoyed and yet only the.shreds and patches of a new policy have been produced. It is true that Mr. Coates has tried two or three experiments with the administration of the Railway Department, that the Minister of Finance has reversed some of Mr, Massey’s methods at the treasury, and that Regulations and Orders-in-Council have been substituted for legislation. These proceedings, however, do not constitute a policy. They are merely the whims of the Ministers concerned.