GOLD STANDARD

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 29, 26 January 1933, Page 3

GOLD STANDARD

IN SOUTH AFRICA DEL'LNITE PARTY IsSUh Bv Telegraph—Copyright—Press A.s, UAx’E IO\IN, .?a::;■.• r; ill. (Uwwul Snrnfs spMw'brillmntiy an’ w idwui r: urmiii.:itiern. !,•>. i:ig l;i> < laiui ■ iii > •.■■* on;tl (li'.-irc for racial pea< o :i!ih t’u- t ti’.W G m-m! Hartzog was wov carrying uai ;i mm-gMit puli'-;., d.'!;i> c'.pr.’.-.- plcdg •- that he would ii < t . :i'n ' ; otii -i if / Un'wi qu'uted tli<* g< hi Wa.’idard. v j!)/. initia ■ i\-<> ’i or the t'or■■/l io.i <•;' a NatiomJ (Hr. crniiom m Gwu'ral Hartzog's linmis. The financial a a i economic eowlifions of tho 1 nion wer > so serious that they required a grear nntioiml effort to retrieve them. G'mier’;! Hertzog. reply;! g. said'that ■he pro-ent Government was fully canuble of dealing with all emergencies. His pledge to resign referred only to voluntary,abandonment of gold. His Government must now defend the country. against the disastrous consequence of non-gold which General Smuts and his ooadjutors had forced on the country. General Hertzog moved an amendment declaring that the House had the .fullest confidence in the present Government. The debate is now likely to take a definite party turn when the House resumes to-morrow.