NATIONAL PARTY.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19913, 16 June 1936, Page 2

NATIONAL PARTY.

GATHERING IN SOUTH. LABOUR CONDEMNED. '(By Telegraph—Press Aswctstion.) CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. More than 300 Canterbury sup)orters of the New Zealand National Party. including representatives of all electorates in Canterbury and on the West Coast. this evening endorsed the nation or the recent. conference in Wellington which formed the party and undertook " enthusiastically to work for its success at the next general election.“ The meeting was addressed by the Leader of the Opposition. the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes. and .\iessrs S. 6. Holland and H. 5. Kyle, MJS P. Mr Forbes said the utmost unani—mity prevailed among the members of the conference in \Vullington which let. up a permanent National Party. Under the coalition it hnrl not been possible to obtain the same organisa—tion. lie spuke of economy measures the Coalition had to introduce am] all members of the Gm‘i‘rnrnent were aware that this would not makc the Government lmpnlar. However. they believed that no right thinking citizen would have wished the Government to sidestep what was done as a national duty. Electors declared that they did not like economy and did not like the people who put economy into effect

"Now we have a party in power which is prepared to go to the other ulreme." said Mr Forbes. "It is prepared to spend—tho sky's the limit. It is not concerned with the question of who is to provide the money. Their’ first consideration is whether there is a demand for expenditure: the cost comes after."

With its control of ihe ReServe Bank the Government had the power or inflatiOn and control or currency, Mr Forbes continued. It had undertaken a programme of extensive public works and it had bought all the dairy produce of the Dominion.

“We have come up against a state of affairs which we could never have dreamed of." salnl {\ir i"nrhrs. “ We cannot have things \\‘hivh 60% money without having in pay for them and the bill for :iil‘ihls will have to he met. Without soiling myself up as a pro—phet i can say surely that income tax Is going to get :1 pretty good whack. These men claim that ihey at least have courage. There is such a thing as the vniour of ignorance and it. is Quay to conceive their rushing in and doing things that must be disastrous to the country. The Government had no regard for the cost and no regard (or the consequences."