GOVERNMENT POLICY.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18877, 22 February 1933, Page 7

GOVERNMENT POLICY.

CONDEMNED AT MEETING. LABOUR PARTY PROTEST. (Bv Tele!r r sr>h.—Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. A meeting to protest against , the Government’s policy on the exchange rate, the sales tax, wage cuts and unemployment w : as held in the Town Hall this evening under the auspices of the New Zealand Labour Party. A gathering of about 3000 was addressed by four members of Parliament, Messrs. 11. E. Holland, leader of the Labour Party, J. McCombs, M. J. Savage and R. Semple, who generally condemned the policy the Coali'tion and explained Labour’s alternatives. At the close of the meeting, over which Mr. P. Fraser, M.P., presided, a resolution was carried unanimously condemning the Government’s financial and economic policy. The resolution said that the Government’s policy far exceeded anything discussed and contemplated at the general election, and clearly opposed the opinions of an overwhelming majority of the people of New Zealand. The honest course of the Government was to resign. The meeting further expressed the opinion that the time had arrived for the credit and currency resources of the Dominion to be utilised for the purpose of restoring and increasing the purchasing power of the mass of the people, and for initiating a system of planned production for the benefit of all the people and for generally fighting the depression.