LABOUR DAILY

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1931, Page 5

LABOUR DAILY

A FEATURED ARTICLE.

ATTACK ON NEW ZEALAND

(Australian Press Association.)

(Received this day at 10.15 a.in.) SYDNEY, July 20.

The Labour Daily in a front page featured article “Nietneyerism in New Zealand,” says: Were there a Labour Government in New Zealand the Australian Tory Press would reek with malediction and lamentation regarding the deplorable position there, financialy and in every direction that counts How could it be otherwise when the Dominion owes PIGS per head of population against £165 per head in the Commonwealth.

New Zealand conditions under the Niemeyer plan are more atrocious man the worst we have seen in the Commonwealth. Because a deficit of five million faced the Forbes Government the Civil Service, one ninth of the adult population, was so reduced that one third of the missing revenue was abstracted from its members, and still there remained a deficit of £1,900,000.

For the first time in the history of New Zealand Parliament, the gag had to be used to rush the ruthless staff through. Riots among hol'des of unemployed have been conimon, the severity of New Zealand winter being appalling to empty. stomachs anti indifterent clothing and bedding. Statistics place the unemployed at one hundred thousand, .Business got* worse and worsey iiincl despite the ■wholesale wage slashing, the credit of the country is bad, Loan Money refused to flow to New Zealand even with its slavish adoption of Niemeyer outlook.