MINISTERS NOT HEARTLESS,
"If there is one member of this House who uses his voice and his eloquence to be most sarcastic it is in. the hon. member for Wanganui, remarked the Minister of Education (the Hon. E. A. Wright), when replying to some remarks made by Mr. Veitch in the House of Representatives last night.
Mr. Veitch had been speaking on the question of unemployment, and observed that no doubt the Government would handle this question in the same way as it had done others—set up a board, after which the Minister would go homo with his cheque in his pocket.
"That was an uncalled for -and a bitter statement," said Mr. Wright. "It implied that the present Ministers are heartless and callous, and that all they care about is themselves; that so long as they are all right they don't care. That is not correct. Whatever are the faults of the present Ministers —they are not ■without faults—(A Labour voice: "Hear, hear") —they are not callous. I say there is no man in this House who has more feeling for his fellowmen than the Prime Minister. I can say that as one who has worked with him for a little time in close quarters. There is no one who has more feeling for the people in distress than the Prime Minister, and there are other Ministers as well."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 53, 31 August 1926, Page 8
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