LABOUR LEGISLATION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 5

LABOUR LEGISLATION

RECORD EIGHT MONTHS MANY IMPORTANT ACTS (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. “Never in eight months in the history of this country have so many important Acts been written on the Statute Book,” said the Hon. W. Nash, the Minister of Finance, speaking at a farewell function at Lower ITutt last evening. “We are not going to wreck the country. We definitely are set on the road to build it up and make it the finest country in the world.” The New Zealander’s standard of living was the highest in the world, but it could be much better, continued Mr. Nash. He said that a remarkable tribute to the administration of the Labour Party was the voting at the Manukau by-election. He was proud that after the Government had written what was imperative and important on the Statute Book, the party should have won the seat by 4411 votes with a candidate not well known in Manukau.

From what he had been told by an English visitor, if the Labour Government in New Zealand could win the help of the people a second time, Britain would have a Labour Government next time. New Zealand was a country in which the people of Britain wore profoundly interested, and if the Labour Party succeeded in the Dominion its triumph would be twofold.