LABOUR POLICY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23042, 20 May 1938, Page 15

LABOUR POLICY

Sir, —I would like to draw the attention of tho moderate and sane people of this country to three points in connection with our Government's policy which are very much news at the moment. Firstly, Canada, Australia, South Africa and Eire have all stood firm behind Great Britain at Geneva for peace and commonsense in the Ethiopian and Spanish questions; New Zealand, under Mr. Savage, alone in the Empire stands beside M. Litvinoff and the Communists for trouble and European war. How can any man or woman support this deplorable foreign policy? Secondly, our Government boasts frequently of not having raised further external loans during their term of office. Instead they propose, if the Superannuation Bill becomes law, to mortgage posterity to the tuno of roughly £10,000,000 a year. What is the difference between this proposal and a loan of over £200,000,000? The result for those that come after us is the same. And finally, the Government of Eire, a country entirely dependent on primary production like Now Zealand, but, unlike New Zealand, right alongside its principal market, has just brought forward its annual budget which demands less than one-third the amount per person of that demanded by our socialist and spendthrift Government.

D. M. Fell.