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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22532, 24 September 1936, Page 12

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NATIONALIST'S CHARGE

MEN WITH TWO JOBS PROMISES NOT FULFILLED " I nm going to keep on hnmmerinj at the Government until I get a repl; from someone on tho 'one-man one-job question," said Mr. F. W. Doidge National candidate for Manukau, wliei addressing electors at the Royal Oa! Hall last night. "Mr. Sample's own pals, the Hon Mr. Lark, the Hon. Mr. Mason and th Hon. Bernard Martin, can have a many jobs as they please," added Mi Doidge. "There is one law for the ric within Labour's own ranks and one fo the poor. 1 am certain the people of thi country disapprove of the hypocrisy c it all, and if I fail to get an answer t this question they will judge them a< cordingly." Mr. Doidge, who was given a sympr thetie and attentive hearing by hi audience, with only a few interjection! mostly good-humoured, devoted the firs part of his speech to replying to state ments made by the Labour candidate Mr. A. G. Osborne. Referring to statement that he had persistently a 1 tacked tho League of Nations, Mi Doidge said he had never once referre to tho 'League of Nations. Immigration Question "I have attacked the Government o its foreign policy because it is simpl crazy," he said. "The Government i pledging itself to a policy of sanction when the British Government has rc pudiated sanctions. Tho Go.vernmen has definitely committed us to the nex mass massacre when it comes." Mr. Doidge said that on tho subjec of immigration Mr. Osborne was agai making a false contention. Mr. Osborn had said that his opponent's plan wa to bring immigrants to New Zealan and dump them on the labour niarkol whore they would become a cost to th State and swell the ranks of tho uu employed. "That is just the antithesis of wha I have been advocating," said Mr Doidge, who again outlined his plan t bring British unemployed to the Do minion and to maintain them, with th [ assistance of the British Government "That is the scheme Mr. Savage wil . have to face up to when he goes to th Imperial Conference, for Mr. Malcolii Mac Donald is going to make immigra tion the keynote of tho conference," hi said. "My opponents are of the typ< who arq afraid to consider tho ques tion of immigration; they wring theii hands, admit their impotence, and eh nothing." Mr. Doidge also dealt with a state inent by the Rev. _A. H. Nordmever M.P., that the Government's legislator had brought sunshine into the lives oi the people. Mr. Doidge said he knew homes in Onehunga where the situatior was Worse than it was a year ago. Socialists and Christians "Two glittering offers were made, and in each case there has been a definite betrayal—a double-barrelled betrayal," said Mr. Doidge, stating that the Government had promised to make the guaranteed price to dairy farmers Is 3d and to remove the exchange rate and the sales tax. "You are definitely foiling yourselves if you believe that yot; got anything.. out of this Governmenl or that you arb'likely to get anything," he added. Mr. Doidge said no return to pros ; perity could be obtained in New Zealand until a sheltered and expanding markel was developed in Great Britain, and Britain was given a greater share ol New Zealand's imports. "We can get oui share of the £1200,000,000 that Britair is going to spend on Dominion produce if we give her a fair and square deal," he said. "That is what this Governmenl is seemingly not disposed to do." References to the remarks of a woman at one of his meetings was made b\ Mr. Doidge, who said she had stated that he should not attack the Government because, even if they were Socialists, they were Christians. "If some ol our friends in the ministry were there they would have simply grinned from ear to ear," said Mr. Doidge. "In oui Government are men who their lives long have preached class war, and are continuing to do so. So not too mucli of your Christian Socialist. The answei should be that all Socialists should be! Christians, but not all Socialists arc Christians." ' A vote of thanks and confidence ir Mr. Doidge was proposed, and was declared carried unanimously by the chairman, Mr. A. A. Coates. It was followed by hearty cheers for the candidate. Burden of Taxes Before Mr. Doidge's arrival, the audience gave a good-humoured reception tr Mr. W. A. Bodkin, M.P. for Central Otago, who devoted the major pari of his address to tho increase in the cost of living as a result of the Government's legislation. "The prices of commodities have beer going up to a remarkable extent," said Mr. Bodkin. "For every 6d that the Labour Governriient has given in the way of increased wages and salaries, you Imvo got to pay out 9d for them. "In New Zealand we have got the Government piling on millions, ancl trying to tax the country into prosperity," said Mr.. Bodkin. "The biggest taxpayers in the country are the men bring, ing up a large family, and the most severe and ruthless Government as far as they are concerned is the present Labour Gejvernment.'' Mr. Bodkin said the Prime Minister's prdecessor, Mr. H. E. Holland, had coined the phrase "from the cradle to the grave" in stating that every child born in New Zealand would bear a burden of debt. "His successor in office has out-Herodcd Horod," said Mr. Bodkin. "When ho retires from the position of Prime Minister, his legacy to every child born in this country will bo the biggest burden of debt known in any part of the British Empire." ■Mr. Bodkin was accorded a voto of thanks for his. address.