A CONSERVATIVE POLICY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22066, 23 September 1933, Page 13

A CONSERVATIVE POLICY

NfeW ZEALANDER’S APPEAL. (From Oub Own Correspondent.) LONDON, August 8. Mr H. C. Cameron, previously trade officer and migration officer in the High Commissioner's Department, and a business man well-known both in New Zealand and London, has written a letter to the West Middlesex Gazette deploring the inactivity of the Conservative Party. Few of the large body of Conservatives in the House of Commons, he says, make any serious effort to have a policy for which they were returned given effect .to. “Instead, they give mostly blind subservience to a Government whose policy is diametrically opposed to all true Conservative desires.” . , , ~ „ «They follow a Specialist leader, Mr Cameron goes on to say, “who is a fanatical pacifist wasting time with Utopian dreams, and who, instead of furthering the interests of our country and Empire, endeavours to make France and Germany, and, in fact, all nations, no matter of what mentality, embrace and kiss each other. In this futile waste of time Mr Baldwin, who, judging by his actions, is undoubtedly a semi-Socialist, though nominally a Conservative, strongly supports him. Instead of carrying out the policy, for which he was returned, of encouraging trade within the Empire and of bringing prosperity to 1 our own people, of helping to restore agriculture in this country with .consequent work for the unemployed, Mr Baldwin supports Mr Runciman in his policy of extending to the foreigner the benefits of our markets. Such a policy is diametrically opposed to that for which the Government was IPturned to power. FAVOURING THE FOREIGNER. “Naturally, Mr Runciman, being a Liberal, does this, but it is most injurious to the agricultural interests of tins country and deadly to our dominion!!. The latter depend almost entirely on the English market for the sale of their products and for their livelihood and existence, and yet the present Government suggests to them that instead of increasing their development, they should curtail their output while the foreigners are given permission to send in supplies. “No stipulation is made _ that the foreigners snould pay duty on imports to this country in exact proportion to that levied on our exports by them. That would, perhaps, be reasonable, but unfortunately, agreements are macle_ in favour of the foreigner and loaded against our oiyn kith and kin. “No wonder Lloyd George, Radical though he may have been, points the finger of scorn at tKe Government.”