“NOT SQUANDERED”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 506, 8 November 1928, Page 6

“NOT SQUANDERED”

REFORM AND MONEY MR. POTTER’S CAMPAIGN The contention that everything had been increased and bettered under the Reform Government in the past 16 years was advanced by Mr. V. H. Potter, Reform candidate for Eden, at a meeting in the Congregational Hall, View Road, Mount Eden, last evening. The candidate received an attentive hearing but a small group of interjectors made themselves heard. Speaking of the national debt, the candidate said that not one of the opponents of Reform could say the Government had squandered money. An Interjector: What about the £7.500,000 for returned soldiers. “The money spent in that direction was worth it. It is right that we should have given them a sporting chance,” said Mr. Potter. The candidate then dealt with the land, saying that there were over 27,000,000 sheep in the Dominion today, the sixth largest flock in the world. The farming community were going to keep the country going. Regarding unemployment he said that the cause was not the immigration policy of the Government, but primarily the big strike in Great Britain.

Referring to taxation. Mr. Potter said that in the Dominion income tax o a -*- lo y est in any part of the British Empire. It was twice as much in Australia and three times as much in Great Britain.

A number of questions were dealt witn and a vote of confidence was carried by a large majority.