DEATHBED REPENTANCE SAYS MR. HOLLAND

Chronicle (Levin), 31 October 1946, Page 9

DEATHBED REPENTANCE SAYS MR. HOLLAND

KiW I'l.V.MOl'TlI, Ocl. 30. "I read a deathbed fepentance in tliis muniiiig's paper, ' ' said ihe Leader of the Opposilion, Mr. 8. G. Holland, when addressing a public meeting at Kew Plyniouth tonight. He was referring to tlie Goveriinient s announced intention to set up a tribunal with representutives from tlie dairy indust rv, to determine the guaranteed price for dairy produce and set up a marketing authority with representation from the dairy farniers. That was what the 1 Jairy farnier liad been battling for for years during wliich he had seen other sections of the community getting what they wanted, commented Mr. Holland. It seemed like a case of "come into the parlour, ete. " Statements about the national debt made in a broadcast speecli tlie previous niglit by the Miuister of Works, Hon. E. Seinple, were questioned by Mr Holland. dNI r. Semple, he said, stated 1 'When we came into power we said we wouldn 't borrow any niore and we didn Jt. We have paid £47.000,000 off "the national debt. In other years, before Labour, they built it up at the rate of £4,000,000 a year. " ifr. Holland said the facts taken from official publications, were that the public debt at March 31, 1030 was £322,000,000. At March 31, 1040 it was £031,000,000, -i total increase of £302,000,000 or over £27,50.000 annually. There was an audienee of 1-100 who gnve Mr. Holland an eui liusiastic repoplimi.