REFORM AND FUSION.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20095, 26 November 1930, Page 15

REFORM AND FUSION.

. 0 IBS Of ■ . _^p or s | lL >er humbug, the statement sp?ea SL J "."' 1S '-i |, ' ,aeafeas a " . nl f" - iorfaiteds, now for Kovo: ,n again dlfieial organiser ro. W tfok . M L ifnt* ol i.\!L"inrs r"°** as"" reported.' 1. There u,u»t b, to the lute Reform Covernt j»WB ... • j.ui,),,. in/rrowtapering o(. - ! if ,012 tile glet- iiulebteiiiieos per S pomlattu «s in Jp Ur. let us pnt. it another a Slu 3t»JS our del,' was tl-'O miisT' . jpl'l million. Tn I'.illo, R»ußon/;j« !i(W< 1,, l'C'H, cI!.",S million. In £227 mill' on - " "; 1 % r £245 million. la I'.'J?, /bb' where wa> the t a pen a« oil. " That the cost 01 pn.uuction mus. fought down to enable oar produeers to meet t.i< 11 ••

' >*OW that .„ t iust what l| oes He l '""' I,,e!iu l '- y >*« Will the Leader of the Opposition ij" a clew statement of what tie WMB. A = a S entfra,i '-' ™ »" al 'i ,ri '^ hot US in t t'> till' ,llu ' ■ St what dues tlic n - lu ll ™ olinu ' l '' Uileman really mean. *3 That a policy <>t delating he adopted to ease.the burden 01 loading costs on the farmer. ■ Again that's not good enough. Wh» ;.' t o pay for the roads? On page ol 0 1 tbe Transport Department s Leper--11030) there is a graph show 1 ntC who S Out of every £IOO spent on roads, streets, etc.. the local laUpaver finds '-'3: l the btuu- huds £lB. fnecial motor taxation finds £l9, and incomes out of loan money. It Cusduties paid respect o. motorS«A. aro added to the motor taxation then this contribution is ™issed to £32, whilst tlic Stir-s •.••••• '- to £5. Will the Loader ot ■■ form Party say who is to pay the £<« found bv the taxpaver to-day out ot ererv £IOO spent. Tins derating idea <omes from Britain, but wo must *r,ow the details. , 4 That the Hallways must Ixs t>-" inoved from political control. . Words again. What does it, mean!Reform took railways from the con.rol of a Board and gme it w •' General Manager. .The of officers who receive less than ,L7(v> is taken avav from the Minister and given to the Manager The promotion of officers is also in the hands of t Manager. This was demanded by the present General Manager before he would take the job on. I e Mr Coates in Parliament , t0 s; 'y r . is in his mind on this subject His w ply has been "tbe same as Canada. Well, Canada has a Geneial Manage . who reports to Payment annually, -nd at that stage Parliament can deal with railwavs just the same as our Parliament. Just what is meant by removing railways from political cont ro ! And why didn't Beform think of that before thev left oifloe? Is it a catiih erf like ''the mm * who gets, things ioM1 f ' 5. That the expenditure of borrowed way on railway construction must itm in all cases where it cannot be jm that the new line, when com pfeied, will be economically sound. Great Scot! Think of the KotoruaTtupo railway under' that item. It started from Botorua and ran aide by side lift a splendid road for great distant, and then wandered off into county that Beform permitted the Uniteds to offer in 50,000 acre lots to any inairidual ready to tako it up. I went tf there to see that country. We saw i mob of horses, and the driver of sis car assured us tliey were wild, but tro no good because they went blind M(iy winter; when someone enquired irtjr they went blind, the driver rejW,"Looking for grass." And those bones have miles and miles of this eftutry that the Kotorua-Taupo railroy would serve, to wander over. (. That th'e rate of wages paid to •lOgta men for purely relief work must be lower than the standard rate, i Again that is a catch cry. Say we are .iMeuing a road on the top of Mount Stouajit. The men are paid say, Is Gd a yard for moving clay. Will the 4iiri«<l men get Is 9d, or what is tbe swing pf this plank? Few men are » i»y wages, '"• Tbftt, although uiglit parades lijulfl be eliminated, the system ot tstiotal defence must still bo based Spoil {he principle of national service. . that again is clear, but wliat does it #BM[! To me it reads like "We are vslfhing tiow the cat will .jump before *e (Uclarq. where 'we stand.'' Knally, take the right honourable gentleman's reference to Parliament-. ir J Labour. He says: "The Govern•HSt'a policy has evidently been faffled to satisfy the Labour Party, on whole votei it depends." Again will right honourable gentleman say of til the legislation passed since f" Uniteds have been in oflics, what PM* tt was framed to satisfy Labour? Itbwir ii pledged neither to Reform to Uniteds. Labour members exMiiae closely every piece of legislation brought down. They do not examine **> brings it down. Show us the SWfo, we say. Let's have a look at jwrr goods. I Aj aq individual, then, the dividing between Eeforni and Uniteds apMw» to ae to be about as wide as a. Wife stamp is thick. —Yours, etc., K. J. HOWARD, -wember 20th, 3030.