CHANGE FORECAST

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1933, Page 5

CHANGE FORECAST

BY MR HOLLAND “GOVT DISSOLUTION INEVITABLE” (Per Press Association — Copyright.) WESTPORT, September 18. Mr H. E. Holland, Leader of the Parliamentary j n his presession, al address to the electors in the Town Hall this evening, dealt at length with the Lyttelton by-election, and he stated that the result was a notice to the Government to quit. Mr Holland said lie believed ’ that the early dissolution of the Coalition party was inevitable, and added that when the Labour party came to - the Treasury benches, Mrs McCombs would find a place in the Cabinet. Reference was made to the precarious state of the superannuation funds, this being due, the speaker alleged, to the Government's failure to fulfil it* legal obligations to strengthen tbc'.v, funds.

Mr Holland said lie could find nothing in the statement- of the Prime Minister, on his return from the Economic Conference, to support the claim of the Minister that our conditions had undergone an improvement-. The unemployed were numerically greater by 1000. If there had been 5000 more unemployed, apparently, the Prime Minister would have regarded this as additional evidenco of the country’s improvement. Economic conditions, the Ottawa agreement, exchange, and banking legislation were dealt with at length, the speaker receiving a hearty vote of thanks carried by acclamation at; the conclusion of his address,