AUSTRALIAN PROSPERITY
DEFIANCE OF POLITICIANS LONG ADMINISTRATION DOOMED. OPINIONS OF AN EX-PREMIER. (By Wire —Special to News.) Auckland, Last Night. “Australia is enjoying great prosperity and is a living example of how little politics can make or break a country,” stated Sir Joseph Carruthers, a prominent New South Wales politician, who was a passenger on the Maunganui from Sydney to-day. Sir Joseph, who was Premier of New South Wales from 1904 to 1907, is the recognised leader of the Nationalist or antiSocialist forces in the Legislative Council, and he is very bitter against the Lang administration. “I am not a prophet or the sori of a prophet, but it is my opinion that Mr. Lang will go after the next elections,” stated Sir Joseph. He added that the vitality of Australia Jay in its vast natural resources, ami in the fine race that had sprung up from the country’s hardy pioneers. No amount of political muddling could prevent its progress or prosperity. Sir Joseph declared that the craze for the motor-car was perhaps being carried too far. On the other hand, if people who could well afford it were spending money, then it was acting to the good of the whole country. “I think our legislation is being designed too much along molly coddling lines,” declared Sir Joseph. “We have old-age pensions which relieve well-to-do sons of poor parents from fulfilling their obligations in lending a helping hand to aged people. Wo have widows’ pensions which tend to increase the number of poor widows, and then there is talk of child endowment, which will relieve the responsibilities of parents and throw them on the poor old Staff.” Although he is 70 years’ old, Sir Joseph is still very active and takes a keen interest in the welfare of the Commonwealth. He is a true imperialist and looks forward to the day when Australia will be rid of Labour rule.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1927, Page 9
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