NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE

Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1935, Page 8

NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE

ATTACK ON THE GOVERNMENT. DEMOCRAT MEETING AT PATEA. A scathing attack of the National Government’s handling of the country’s finances was made by Dr. G. J. Adams, Democrat candidate for the Fhtea electorate, during his address to Patea electors on Friday. A vote of no-confidence in the present Government was carried unanimously. Mr. Frank Naismith presided in the absence of the Mayor, Mr. F. Ramsbottom. Mrs. Adams, and Mrs. F. Ramsbottom were also on the platform. There was no need to repeat the policy of the Democrat Party submitted to them at a previous meeting, Dr. Adams said, but he would confine his remarks to the incompetent administration of the past four years by quoting the reports of the Auditor-General. Mr. E. F. Hemingway moved a vote of thanks to the speaker and of no-con-fidence in the present Government on the following points; that it had failed iQ reduce taxation, that it had broken jts contract with the aged poor, notably with the short payment of postal certificates by £23 10s in each £lOO, that while it took 8d in the £1 from women it provided £9OO to take to England a Government servant already in receipt of a lucrative pension, when either Sir Thomas Wilford or Sir James Parr, already at London, could have filled the vacancy; the wastage of public funds and the unemployment moneys which Included the throwing of £4OOO into the lap of an insurance company and finally that the National Government was utterly incompetent and incapable of handling the affairs of the country. The resolution was carried unanimously on the voices and was followed by Hanning.