THEN FINDS HE IS WRONG

Chronicle (Levin), 6 August 1946, Page 7

THEN FINDS HE IS WRONG

—Press Association

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' " . WilLLINOTON, August 5. 1 Presid.ent Troman' was the tool of the money gangsters of the United States, declared the Miuister of Works (i\ir. Semple) addressi'ng a meeting at 'BOyerstream, AVhen he compared housing cbnditions in Kew Zealand and Ameriea and spoke of the recent lifting of price 'controls in the United Btates. Mr. Semple said that the President had jtaken tho oontrol ott' bntter, wliieh was !now 6s 'a pound in th'e United Statesi' Au Americau liad recently told t;£e Mini8tCr that he did not kuow whai was going to hnppen in the United States. • Prices were ..soaring, and the puichasing power of money was slirinking. -The last depression had started in the United States. If another oue started it miglit swing round the wbrld likc the last oue. Kew Zealand m.ust take eare that it did not reach these shores. The Minister contended that if the Kew Zealand Opposition got iaito power it would do what President Truman had done in Ameriea. Out of 37,000,000 komes in the united States, 1(5,000,000 liad aio private baths, added Mr. Seruplo. ' Ilow did -that coniparo u ith wbat had laeon aecomplished in Kew Zealand? In quoting from United States statistics •he was quoting fr'om the land of the millionaire, the niulti-nullionaire, and ihe ' money gangster — yet 1(),()()0,0LH)

homes were without bathroonis. There was. no " interf erence' ' ' with liousing i '■'b'y the Goverument there. .The hlinister tlieu pruceeded to outline the progress of Kew Zealand 's I hbusing sclieme, mentiouing that the! Government had Imught suflicient land | to huild 40,000 homes to belong to tlie! ifatioiJ.. This land was surveved forj footpaths axid roads, and if the people J wanted to build tlieir own homes theyt eould' do so- by getting a loan froiu a mprtgago eorporatioii. Building contro]; would not be lifted in Now Zealand, he; said. . It liad kept Ihe cost of liousing | f roTii rising to tlie skies. He could j furnish the names of 'men wlio wanted j tio build skyscrapers in Kew Zealand. I If cohtrol wero taken olf they would 1 g'et all the timber. •)