NO GOVERNMENT BY PUBLIC SERVICE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2751, 28 June 1924, Page 2

NO GOVERNMENT BY PUBLIC SERVICE.

MIL MASSEY HITS OUT,

The Prime Minister stated in the House last night that the Government, according to a return he had just received quite apart front that, debate, was expected to hud £170,090 for railway .superannuation purposes this year. But he would say at once that he was going to ask the House to lower taxation. He wanted to make that perfectly clear.

Mr Fraser: Yes, upon the rich people. A Reform member: Upon everybody. It was quite, true, added the Prime Minister that he had had all sorts of requests from his Labour friends and others to convene Parliament to deal with the railway strike. But he would do nothing of the sort, because, even if the House was sitting, the responsibility would still devolve upon the Government for the time being; and he believed that the Go venom*) I, had settled the strike much better than Parliament would have settled it.

Mr Howard: You haven't, .'settled il yet. The Prime Alia is ter said lliaL lie did know whether the hou. member intended that as a threat or not; hut so long as he was at the head ol affairs, he was never going to allow this country to be governed bv the Public Service or by any other section ol‘ the community.