“National Party Fiscal Policy Muddle Measure Or Confidence Trick”?
“Either they are completely ignorant or they are trying to deceive the people. It is either a muddle measure of great danger or the greatest confidence trick ever put across the people,’’ declared the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) in the Opera House last night when commenting on the National Party’s financial policy. “We have asked them what they are trying to do so that the people will understand it,” said Mr. Fraser. “When we ask them they close up tighter than a clam or a Stewart Island oyster. I ask the Leader of the Opposition if he can answer the questions I have put to him and if he can answer other questions that will be put. Can he tell us w’here the amount of money is to be curtailed. W’ho will lose it? Will it be the beneficiary under social security, the worker or the farmer? Where is the money to be taken from, by whom and by what means?” Mr. Fraser said that he was seeking fundamental facts which the people were entitled to know.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 4 November 1949, Page 4
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