"UTTERLY LOST HOPE."
MEMBERS DISAPPOINTED. > •• ' ■- . ' PROMISES OF&NO USE. PLAIN i TALK TO GOVERNMENT. [BY TELEGRAPH. —SPECIAL REPORTER.] WELLINGTON, Friday. Speaking after the announcement in the House of the Government's intontions by tho Minister of Public Works, tho Hon. E. A. Ransom, Mr. Fletchor spoke plainly of his disappointment.
"Tho reply of tho Minister, as far as I am concerned, is definitely unsatisfactory," ho said, banging his desktop emphatically. "I am not prepared to go back and tell the people in my constituency of tho potentialities of tho South Island at some romoto date. I want'the Prime Ministor to-night to givo some assurance of what h'e is going to do, not in tho dim and distant future, but what ho is going to do right here and now."
Plain talk was indulged in by Mr. H. G. R. Mason (Labour —Auckland Suburbs), speaking later. " I hava utterly lost any little hope I ever had in tho Government," he said. " There was so much talk from the very beginning that wo could not oxpect much action. After healing the speech of the Minister of Public Works on unemployment I have given up any little hope I had. The sooner the House and the country realise that position the better it will be for tho country.".
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20372, 28 September 1929, Page 12
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