PRESS COMMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1928, Page 2

PRESS COMMENT

It is not at. all extraordinary that capital should be employed, to checkmate a party which has openly declared -thsi/t it stood for the abolition of Capital, though such harsh sayings today are suavely paraphrased when not conviently omitted. Mr Holland’s programme is now constructive. It may look well on paper, just as the plans of an up-to-date residence may look well to a home-seeking man with a very small bank, balance. His difficulty is to find the money for the carrying into effect of his plans. And besides the cost of Labour’s social legislation schemes, there is the question of their efficient and clean administration. In other countries this is where Labour has fallen down on the job.—Dunedin “Star.”

The Labour Party has thrown its principles to the winds- in the hope of attracting support which may have been frightened away ifrom it by its stark proposals for the destruction of all private interest in land. But these proposals have not, been abandoned by tlie party. They have simply been placed in cold storage The present policy is designed to have the effect o*‘ lulling the public into a sense of false security. It is wholly inconsistent with the avowed objective of the party. That objective it is necessary to repeat is tlie socialisation, of the means of pro. duction, distribution, and exchange. If this objective were realised, there would he no such thing as the private possession olf land of any description The State would become the sole owner It is to that end that the programme of the Labour Party is ultimately directed.—“Otago Daily Times.”