MR. SAVAGE CRITICISED.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13644, 31 August 1937, Page 5

MR. SAVAGE CRITICISED.

NEW ZEALAND'S LEADING “CROAKER.” Electric Telegraph—Press Association INVERCARGILL, Last Night. “The Prime Minister takes exception to those persons who issue a note of warning about public expenditure, high taxation and soaring costs taking place in New Zealand to-day,” said the Leader ot the Opposition, Hon. Adam Hamilton, in an address at Wyndham to-night. “He goes so far as to call them ‘croakers.’ “In my judgment the Prime Minister himself is New Zealand s leading croaker. Ha can see lio good accomplished by the pioneers and public men of the past. Everything in the past lias been wrong, and he considers that he himself is a heavensent deliverer to make New Zealand the paradise of the Pacific. “Manv_ of us may be excused for feeling anxious about tho future of Xew Zealand under Labour’s new philosophy. Air Savage's Government is: fortunate in being in office during a period of high prices, and lie delights in making comparisons to-day with the conditions during the slump period, when our export income was little more than half of what it is today. It is lie who has the slump bug of the noxious weed type “For 50 years before the advent of Air Savage’s Government the country lias been one of the soundest and most progressive in the world. He refuses to acknowledge this fact. Let him cheer up and see at least some good m the history and development of his adopted country.”