LABOUR PARTY LEADER.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12453, 20 September 1933, Page 3

LABOUR PARTY LEADER.

VIEWS OF MR HOLLAND. Electric Telegraph—"Pross WESTPORT, September 1-. Mr H. E. Holland. Leader of the Opposition, in a pre-sessional, address to electors in the Town Hail this evening, dealt at length with - ho Lyttelton by-election and stated that the result was a notice tc the Gov. eminent to • quit. He believed that the early dissolution of the Coalition Party was inevitable, and when the Labour Party came to. the Treasury benches Airs' McCombs would find a place in Cabinet. Reference was made to the precarious state of the superannuation funds, this being due, the speaker alleged, to the Government’s failure to fulfil its legal obligations to strengthen these funds.

Mr Holland could- find nothing hi the statement of the Prime Minister mi his return from the Economic Conference to support the claim of the Minister that conditions had improved. Unemployment was numeric, ally greater by 1000. If there had been 5000 more unemployed apparently the Prime Minister would have regarded this as additional evidence of the country’s- improvement. Economic- conditions, the Ottawa agreement, exchanges and banking legislation were dealt with at length, the speaker receiving a hearty vote of thanks, carried by acclamation, at the conclusion of his address