Socialists On Road To Communism Says Visiting Politician

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 67, 23 November 1949, Page 5

Socialists On Road To Communism Says Visiting Politician

The militant unions in New Zealand dictated the Government's policy today, declared Mr E. B. Corbett, National member for Egmont, when visiting Whakatane last week. Behind these unions there were unscrupulous leaders who would stop at nothing to gain their own ends, he added.

Many people failed to see that at the end of the socialist road was Communism, Mr Corbett contended. This had been proved in many countries. During his six years in Parliament he had seen the advance of .socialism and the way they had governed already he thought the socialist government quite unprepared to carry on the government of New Zealand.

Mr Corbett referred to the public service which, ..he said, had grown to outlandish proportions. When the National Party got into power it would effect a pruning for more efficiency and less wastage. Today there was an urgent,call for economies in Government administration. He appealed to electors to support the free enterprise Government, which would bring conditions where the pay envelope would mean much more

In 1938 the money voted to the Prime Minister's Department was £24,000. Today It was £185,000, the member for Egmont continued. This, was the department that prepared all tlje Labour propaganda. It was the department that had the secret police, the secret police that adopted Goebbels tactics to run Holmes out of office. That stole his private property and returned it only when they were finished with it.

'St ill'becomes a Government Department to adopt such tactics." he added.

This department could be cut down and much of the staff put to more useful work) where they could not remain in a kingdom within a kingdom around the Prime Minister, Mr Corbett said.