SAVINGS BANKS DEPOSITS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22730, 16 November 1935, Page 24

SAVINGS BANKS DEPOSITS

TO THE EDITOR Sir, —Mr Nordmeyer is reported to have said at Waikouaiti that " perhaps the copies of advertisements said to have appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald were fictitious." This refers to a recent advertisement in the press showing the effect which Labour rule in New South Wales had on the security of people's savings in the Government Savings Bank in that State, It is stated quite distinctly in the advertisement in question that the extracts complained of were clipped from the Svdney Morning Herald of September 9, October 7 and 9, 1931. The genuineness of the advertisement is not open to question, as Mr Nordmeyer well knows. His further statement, "that a political party which seeks to maintain itself in office on a lie is unworthy of the support of decent or thinking people" does not bear analysis, for if there is any lying here it jb not being done by the accused party. Mr Nordmeyer might have gone a bit further and told his audience that in April. 1932, the New South Wales Treasury, still under the Lang Administration, did not pay out widows' pensions ->r family endowments. In New Zealand, whatever the Government's faults, nothing like this has vet happened.—l am. etc., True Bill.