OPPOSITION NECESSARY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 504, 6 November 1928, Page 12

OPPOSITION NECESSARY

WHAT UNITEDS STAND FOR MR. F. LYE EXPLAINS (From*Our Qwn Correspondent) MORRINSVILLE. To-day. Mr. F. Lye. the United Party candidate tor the Waikato seat, addressed a largely attended meeting at Morrinsvilie last evening. The candidate was accorded a good hearing and answered a number of questions. In his opening remarks Mr. Lye said he subscribed to the. United Party’s policy, but he was a Liberal, and always had been one. He made no apology for supporting the United Party, which had originated Owing to the dissatisfaction with the system of the Reform Government of allowing government by the heads of departments and by Order-in-Council. There were many people who had blindly followed the banner of Reform without considering the weaknesses of that party’s administration. It was the duty of the people to see that they had a vigorous, effective and united opposition. This was what he thought the United Party would be after the election. The speaker described Mr. Coates as insincere and a Prime Minister who had been made a superman by the newspapers. He had not shown capacity in his position, and was palpably unsuitable to lead the country during the difficult period through which it was passing. Mr. Lye said he had strongly opposed the Dairy Control Bill, but added that it would have achieved a measure of success had it not been for the inaction on the part of the Prime Minister when he was in England and the Minister of Agriculture in New Zealand. . The Government, by exempting wealthy squatters from the payment of income tax. had imposed an unfair additional burden on poor people, who were obliged to make up the deficiency through the Customs. He gave the Government credit for doing its best to meet the unprecedented de mauds on the State Advances office, but he considered it was to blame for the opposition that had arisen through its system of income taxation, which had diverted money from rural securities to local body and other investments.