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LABOUR’S CHALLENGE ADDRESS BY PRIME MINISTER “FANTASTIC FINANCIAL POLICY” (Per United Press Association.) Christchurch, November 7, “God help New Zealand if as a result of the election a Labour Government is given control of the national finance and administrative affairs for the next four years,” said the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes at Oxford, in his own electorate, to-night. “It will mean a worse disaster than the severe depression from which the country has emerged. It will involve control of the banking machinery of the Dominion and savings of the people. The people must face that prospect as the most serious issue ever submitted to the electors of New Zealand.” Mr Forbes said the position to-day was that on one hand the electors had an experienced Government which had proved its courage and ability to face realities. On the other side there was the Labour Party with no experience of administrative affairs, but with a fantastic experimental financial policy. There were, of course, other parties in the field, but the issue was really between the Government and Labour. He likened Labour’s promises to “spreading treacle for the flies.”
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Southland Times, Issue 22733, 8 November 1935, Page 8
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