A BROKEN PROMISE

Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1921, Page 4

A BROKEN PROMISE

(Lyttelton Times.) The people of New Zen land are no painfully familiar with the truth *han prominent • characteristic of the 1? •- form Government is the prodigality of its promises and the impudence wi'S which it breaks them. Here is a specimen: ' The Acting Prime The Prime A 1 in- -Minister Sevenister at Election teen Mou th s Time. Later. I take the op- It is the lnisiportunity of sub- ness of the local mitting a policy bodies to build

A vigorous liousas an d extensive The Government bousing scheme. . cannot possibly to effect na- provide houses all tional improve- over the country, ment in the lions- The Government jug of the people has not got the both in town and money .... country; more as- Every house costs sistance to local *at least £IOOO bodies with the • • • The Govsame object. . At eminent has deleast £1,000,000 termined to rigidper annum to be ly limit expondiprovided for this tnjre of public purpose. money on build-

Tt may be <iuite true that “the Government carfnot provide houses all over the •country,” but it promised to do so, and it is conceivable,• if hot pro >- able that Mr Massey secured a good many votes in December, 1919, by pledging himself to a national housing scheme for town and country. If no did, it seems clear that those votes wor? obtained by false pretences.