Deserved all it Got

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 191, 13 August 1931, Page 8

Deserved all it Got

To thu Editor. Dear Sir, — Mr M'Combs tries to put those who objected to the loan of Juifl.OOO off side. The safeguards he referred to were not safeguards. When this loan proposal came before the Loan Board that board probably considered that Chritchurch deserved all it got from the political Labour Party. It is a truism that a people get the government they deserve, and that applies to municipal governments as well as to national governments. Christchurch people ought to have known from experience what to expect from the political Labour Party. It had put up the rates by over 14 per cent; went in for a borrow-and-squander policy, and generally conducted the afiairs of the city in a way that benefited a few at the expense of the many. The people of Christchurch should not have been so simple as to be deceived by the catch cries of that party. There was: sure to be a nigger in the woodpile somewhere. The nigger was their intention to mortgage the people’s homes. 11 was kept very quiet until they got into power, and then it was trotted out as a virtue, a debt of nearlv £50,000. And they take credit for reducing the rates by a paltry £17.000 The only people who benefit by it are the council employees. A council labourer gets 16s per day, a paid holiday, a subsidy for his sick benefit, and the same for his superannuation. He is better paid than a skilled tradesman who works elsewhere It is a case of spoils to the victors. The Loan Board did us the best service it could It made us bear the results of our folly. It showed us that if we trust the political Labour Party we must Expect to be stung.—l am, etc.. X.