GRAVE DIFFICULTIES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 169, 20 July 1939, Page 7

GRAVE DIFFICULTIES

GOVERNMENT'S PROBLEMS MR. W. J. POLSON’S ANALYSIS PARLIAMENT BLDGS., July 19. ‘‘Cable news which has appeared in lhe Press in the last 48 hours indicates that difficulties of increased gravity are facing the Government | to-day,” said Mr. W. J. Polson <Op- ■ position, Stratford) during the Ad-dress-in-Reply debate in the House of i Representatives last night. The Government, he added, had rushed headlong into reckless expenditure in I bringing its untried theories into prac- 1 tice, and the country was now paying i for that policy. “The Primo Minister, Rt. Hon. M. I J. Savage, has said that the import I restrictions will be permanent, but we now find the Minister of Finance, Hon. W. Nash, telling the people in England that they may end this year,” continued Mr. Polson. “The insulation theory sold to the people of this country has failed utterly. We cannot continue to squander millions and maintains a higher standard of living than that of our fellow-subjects in Britain without Jiving on our own resources.” Mr. Polson said that expansion of the secondary industries should not be at the expense of the primary industries, costs had been rising, and the more they rose and expanded to assist one section at the expense of another, the more the economy of the country would be thrown out of balance.