“THE KELLY GANG.”

Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 19664, 20 March 1936, Page 3

“THE KELLY GANG.”

FINANCIAL SCARE. >* ' Mr. Savage Shows Fight. LABOUR’S OBJECT. ALLEGED FLIGHT OF CAPITAL. (By Telegraph.—press Association). WELLINGTON, March 20. “If there is to he a light between the ‘Kelly Gang,’ oi' Auckland, and the people of New Zealand, then 1 know wh*it side I'll be on,” said the Prpne Minister, Mr. M. J. Savage, in reference to a statement that there had been a ilight of capital from New Zealand as the result ol the uncertainty about the Labour Government’s policy. “I’ll be ou the side of the people of New Zealand,” he continued. “I’ve been through this country and 1 have told the people as clearly as words can make it, that they are perfectly safe so far as we are concerned. Our object is not only to conserve the savings of the people, but to make it possible for them to save it. It has certainly not been possible for them to do that in recent

years. “We are being told now by some bank director, whose name is carefully hidden, that money is leaving New Zealand. I think I could name the director without any difficulty. jHe is prepared to wreck the confidence of the people of New Zealand in their own country in order to make an imaginary point against the New Zealand Government because it happens to be Labour.

“My own feeling is one of greater confidence than ever. The goodwill of the people is there without any doubt whatever. The people understood our programme and they are asking the Government to give effect to the promises that were made. We are going to do that and Ave are not going to smash anything except the power of the ‘Kelly Gang,’ and that cannot be done too soon.