CO-OPERATION WANTED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18990, 15 April 1936, Page 5

CO-OPERATION WANTED

LABOUR GOVERNMENT APPEAL BY MINISTER (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this clay. An appeal to all in the Labour movement not to drive the Government too fast in its legislative programme, but to co-operate to the full in making sure that the ground was firm before another step was taken, was made by the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, in an address at a social in the Trades Hall last night given by the Wellington Labour representation committee as a welcome to the delegates attending the annual conference of the New Zealand Labour Party. Mr. Nash paid a warm tribute to the men and women who had worked behind the scenes for the success of the Labour movement, particularly during the year preceding the general election. The responsibilities of the intensive work of the seven months before the elections, however, were not comparable with the responsibilities which would devolve on the Labour movement and the Government during the next 12 months, said Mr. Nash.

“I hope there will be no drive to force the Government faster than it has gone,” continued Mr. Nash. “The progress already made seems hardly wortli while at all, but we are making sure and we are going forward to build that state to which most in this room have devoted their lives.” The Minister appealed for the fullest co-operation by those working in factory, office ancl workshop, by making the services they rendered better than they were when the previous Government was in power.