OPPOSITION LEADER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 266, 13 November 1935, Page 8

OPPOSITION LEADER

MR. SAVAGE IN SOUTH | f*»r P,«®3 Awociai.oo. I IN V EK€ ARG ILL.Nov.il. ’ the Leader of the Opposition. .Mr. j M. J. Savage, addressed a very large • ■t»eiing in the Chic Thearre this even I ng and met with a cordial reception.! At the conclusion of hi? address a mo • non of thanks to Mr. Savage and eon tidenee iu the Labour Party was en•hufiastkally carried, the audience, be J ore dispersing, singing ••tor He’* a| Jolly Good Fellow.” During the course of a two hour.- | • pcs-b, .Ur. Ravage dealt r.ith the necessity for further developing secondarv industries in the Dominion as a oceans to building a home market for nrimaiy products, in view of the I anxdly changing external conditions! and fluctuating prices oversea’’. Hyj s»a d the ume had tonic for increase ! a.-t’vity in the building of industries tbs* were natural to the Dominion. I'ue most effective reply tho*e who ?• Located quotas and res'." >cted production »»f primary prodi:’.- was the employment of additional workers in rhe manufacturing industri s < ti e Dominion. There w3< no mark like the home market, which cO’jil b p added to by the employment of our vvn peop'f. New Zealand woollen good* were among the best in the ’.vorld and Ji many other lines h’o- ] minion products would compare favour ] ably with the ben imported. Tens of _ thousands o' children were leaving s-hool annually with not even blind a Lev occupations to go to. They wcic • entitled to expect remunerative po-; 1 tio t.s in the industries and profess: ia.* o (he r own country. The time had ••owe for stocktaking, and after ha co sidered natural resources a’iJ v?. te-nal commitments we should beg rational plan of reconstruction. i almost unlimited supplies of wool, coa i'«n ore and other raw material it was difficult to understand why «o mu< i li.e.rployment and distress should eut ( The planning o'" external trade was cf equal importance. Hit or miss met’ od-f belonged io 4 past age t 1 great : at tention should be given to t *a«le u_ - ementa will, the -h *'or men .a ith aa« othr- nations.