NATIONAL PARTY.

Wairarapa Age, 2 July 1936, Page 5

NATIONAL PARTY.

ADDRESS BY MR. FORBES. STRONG ORGANISATION NEEDED. STERN FIGHT IN PROSPECT. AUCKLAND, July 1. The necessity for building up a strong organisation to mobilise publie opinion against the legislation of the present Government was emphasised by the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, Leader of the Opposition, at a luncheon tendered to Mr. and Mrs. Forbes by members of the National Party. 4 4 The savings of the people,” said Mr. Forbes, “are now absolutely under the control of the Government to do what they like with them, and also the welfare of children . There are very big issues at stake and it is going to be a difficult time. There is no doubt about the power they have got—the power of the purse and the power to inflict penalties. We are hearing now about ‘the new tyranny in New Zealand. ’ Every man in the country has got to line up and join a union and that union can be called upon to subscribe to the funds of the Labour Party. They can call up half a million pounds to assist them in a political campaign. The fight is not going to be an easy one and the greatest organisation is required among those who feel that what is being done by the Labour Parfy is likely to bring disaster to the country.”

Mr. Forbes said the Minister of Labour (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong), on account of the new legislation, intended to appoint ten new inspectors, and under the fair rent legislation was going to have anothet six. In time every second person in New Zealand would bd either an inspector or some other Government servant. The situation was too serious to allow of any division in their ranks and they must all stand together in an effort to maintain the very high reputation that New Zealand had had in the past.—(P.A.)