LIBERAL-LABOUR PARTY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19201, 18 June 1924, Page 4

LIBERAL-LABOUR PARTY.

CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH ISLAND. MR WILFORD AT WAIMATE. (Pek United Peess Association.) WAIMATE, June 17. Mr T. M. Wilford commenced his South Island tour in the Waitaki electorate tonight addressing- an audience of about 450 persons in Waimate. Ho was given an attentive hearing- and spoke on the lines of his North Island addresses. He contended that (he 'Government had broken faith with the returned soldiers. He advocated State banking and criticised the State Advances administration, contending that the Prime Minister hud taken money from the Advances Department for floating loans which was not the purpose for which the departs ment was created. Mr Wilford went on to refer to the need for trade with the East, and ho exhibited to his audience tins of Australian butter as sold in Singapore. He said the big meat trust formed in England would imperil our marketing of produce, and he referred to the possible competition by Russia in butter and cheese on the Horne market. Wo should therefore take advantage of all possible trading opportunities. Speaking of the Prime Minister s surplus of £l,812j)00, Mr Wilford stated that it meant taking out of the country by moons of taxation money that v.-as necessary to run tho country. Ho went on to refer to tho number of bankruptcies which constituted a record since 1837. The speaker referred to the petrol ring, and stated that one way to deal with it was by the State coming in, but the Government sot its ace against the State taking on anything like that. Mr Wilford proceeded to speak of tho high taxation which, ho said, crippled industry and caused unemployment. In conclusion he claimed that Liberalism stood for everybody. It stood between Reform, which was for tho vested interests on one side, and the extreme party, led by Mr Holland on the other. A motion of thanks and confidence in tho Liberal Party was carried with only three dissentients.