THE MANTLE OF SEDDON

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12285, 3 November 1925, Page 4

THE MANTLE OF SEDDON

NOT ON HOLLAND’S SHOULDERS ATTITUDE TO DEFENCE A TEST GOVERNMENT AND LABOUR (By Tefegraph— “Times” Special Reporter.) AUCKLAND, November 2. Labour says the mantle of Ballance and Soddon has fallen upon them, said the Prime Minister at Mangere East to-day. Well, if Labour’s policy has been correctly interpreted it is a wonder Mr Ballance and Mr Seddon do not turn in their graves. Their policy was no more like Labour’s than it is like the man in the moon. There is no resemblance whatever. Messrs Ballance, Seddon, Ward, and Massey all placed their Empire as a first consideration. There certainly never was any suggestion on their part to repeal the Defence Act and the war regulations. Never oftce did we hear any of these gentlemen referring to labour in the terms in which Labour have done. The Prime Minister said that the Government waa not against labour. In fact it offered labour every opportunity. All it asked was that labour should give faithful service, and an honest-return. At th© same time it aeked that employers should treat and pay, their workers well. "Tho Government will do all it can

respecting housing,'* Mr Coates said. It has passed the record long ago at making money available for housing We are going to take up the attitude that we would not ask anyone to live where we would not live ourselves. A DELIBERATE FALSEHOOD , 1, say again that the Labour story about a reduction of 7s 6d a week in wages is a deliberate falsehood. The government have never said any such thing, although the labour Party keep on distributing literature to that effect. On the other hand the Government does propose to give assistance to the family man, and to give that assistance out of the Consolidated JJuna.