STRONG OPPOSITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19042, 16 June 1936, Page 12

STRONG OPPOSITION

\i SUPPORT : NT'- CRITICISED .OF IGNORANCE" ■■;•'- • " -",-"(Per Pre'su" Association.) flight. ■ ;*;.Mofc'. \'Hia£".: 3QO Canterbury supi'itirte'rs of the Now Zealand National : eae;itatiivbs of all ftfe(?tprate, "in "Canterbury and on the West: Coast,:.tltfo evening 'endorsed the (iefipli of'the T'ccerit conferehec in Wclliqgtqi} which -formed: tlie party, and nEderto*o'k" i ' , eiitfiusiastica% .to work for Us, success ftt the next-general .elcctj6ii".?'! The ineeting was addressed, by •rflie Leader':of ftft>. Opposition, .the hi, ijon.,G.:W.. Forbes, and -by: Mossrs. S 'feifOlljind niid ll:'S.' H. Kyle, member; of'i?arlh,uiierit.. ... "said the utmost univ.u-'jflUy-pfpyaHed among the members a tlieHonfeienc.c in Wellington whin! set.-n'p., h. . .permanent. National Party -Coalition, ft.had not been possible to; obtain, tho same orgauisa'He... spoke of the economy "iiV(;a ( i > lives'the Coalition had to introduce:, and all tlie. members of the (iovp'nu'n'eiit .were aware .that this would not.'iiialie the .'Government popular. iroWever:' they."believed that no rightthjnliing . citizens would have wishes |K**Sovenitiieiit* to sidestep what was-. flQn'eras'a national duty. .The elector? tiqqlai.ed that they did riot like ecoTiOiiiy,' ft'hdjdid not like, the people who put : economy into .effect..

met '.' fy^4tjr.-AVe k ..jJii\'e. a .party 'in' powei *tfhlc|; is; prepared; to go to tno othei Forbes.- "It is tfrOTSrigd-. .toitspend—the , sky's '. the ffimt.J/. IL..U. not; concerned with'lho who is.'to provide the money. The ■•.-first ■ M-nsidiM-iitiou is ■ whether tMre. "is a demand for expenditure; the cost conies .after."

"••'-' With":; its control of the Reserve hau the power of iiiifiat'ion. and < control. of : currency, Forbes continued. It had underprograirime of extensive pubHcls6rks/!'firid it had bought all the dairy produce in the Dominion. ' have come iip against a state of [fiffairsirwhjclrWe could never have drftiirie'd* of >' ? wsai d Mr. For lies. "We Cannot;havfethings which cost money ysftjihOut having to pay for them, and tsr£;bjll, for all this will have to be ntej£,-;- Without setting myself up as a jirqpnet, lean say safely that the inc.ttiije.,tjix is, going to get a pretty good whack. These men claim that they at courage. There is such a thfflg as/the valour of ignorance, and it-is easy to conceive their rushing in Sand doing things that must be disastrous to the country." ■ "the Government, he concluded, had no? regard-for' cost' and no regard for the'consequences.' ,