A PATERNAL GOVERNMENT.
ASKED TO DO TOO MUCH.
The New Zealand Government has been put dawn by some as a paternal Government,- while scores of other*—the vast majority —claim that ii does ...not-... do enough , for the people. . Mr. ■■■'Jaiws Grande, when lecturing- at' Wellington, said that the people, of the Dominion expert too roach from their Government, He was candid when he di»cusgcd... the point. On the screen ■he showed some of. the huts , erected on/ the .'European Alps. : They were 'erected by. the Alpine Club, he said. - " You "your moantain huts, but they .are provided by the Government. It ; seems ;to me that you ask the Government to do ■ everything:■ for yon. On the West Coast' I emphasised . the need., for good -eh,. and the people told oss thai the ■ Government should..-provide' than.:' It is a good thing for the -early settler# vof -, this, . country, that they, -had no • Government, otherwise', the place- would, ;; have, been a wilderness sfciß." (Laughter.) .'.' ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18387, 1 May 1923, Page 7
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162A PATERNAL GOVERNMENT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18387, 1 May 1923, Page 7
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