COALITION POLICY

Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1933, Page 5

COALITION POLICY

CONDEMNED AT WELLINGTON.

LABOUR MEETING’S RESOLUTION.

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WELLINGTON, February 21

To protest against the Government’s policy on exchange, the sales tax, the wage cuts, and unemployment, about 3000 persons asseriibled at the Town Hall „ to-night, wilien a. meeting was held under the auspices of the New Zealand Labour Party. The gathering was addressed by four M’s.P., Messrs H. E. Holland, J. McCombs, M. J. Savage and R. Semple, wiio generally condemned the policy of the Coalition. They explained Labour’s alternatives.

At the close of the meeting, over which Mr P. Fraser, M.P: presided, a resolution was carried unanimously condemning the Government’s financial and economic policy., A The resolution said that the Government’s policy had far exceeded : anything -discussed or contemplated at the general election! It was clearly opposed to the opinions of the overwhelming majority of the people of New Zealand. The honest course for the Government was to resign.

The meeting further expressed the opinion that the time has arrived for the credit and currency resources of the Dominion to be utilised for the .purpose, of restoring and increasing the purchasing power of the mass of the people by initiating a system of planned production for the benefit of the people and, generally, of fighting the depression.