MINISTERS’ TOURS

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22611, 16 May 1945, Page 6

MINISTERS’ TOURS

INCONSISTENCY CLAIMED NATIONAL CANDIDATE’S VIEWS “Join the Government and see the I world,” was suggested as a suitable political slogan by Mrs Hilda Ross, | National candidate in the Hamilton j by-election, in an address at Norton { Road last night. Mr J. S. Elliot prei sided. Prior to reaching office, said Mrs Ross, Labour party members used to wax indignant when any of their predecessors found it necessary to make a journey overseas; but when it came to overseas travel, the present Government had broken all records. Practically every Minister had managed to have a trip abroad, and some had had two or three such trips. What was more, some of them even lived abroad, and the establishment of diplomatic posts has provided a means of consoling defeated Government representatives, so perhaps it paid better to be defeated. Mrs Ross said she had read in the paper that the Hon. A. Nordmeyer had promised to make an investigation of the shortage of eggs and potatoes in Hamilton with a view to having the position corrected. “It is just as well we are having a byelection,” she said. She quoted what the late Hon. Arthur Cooke, M.L.C., had said of the Internal Marketing Department, calling it “the laughing stock of the country” and saying that the Labour Party was not getting the help it should from Ministers of the Crown. “That was from one of the Government’s own supporters,” said Mrs Ross. A vote of thanks to the candidate, proposed by Mr M. J. Carroll and seconded by Mr H. Douglas, was carried by acclamation.