POLITICAL ADDRESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1938, Page 8

POLITICAL ADDRESS

PRIME MINISTER TO SPEAK ON WEDNESDAY PRELIMINARY FINANCIAL SURVEY THE SHARING OF BROADCAST FACILITIES WELLINGTON, This Day. A public address which is expected to be of considerable political importance will be delivered by the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon M. J. Savage, in the Wellington Town Hall on Wednesday evening next. The speech will be part of the programme of the annual conference of the New Zealand Labour Party, which opens in Wellington on Monday, but in addition to delegates to the conference the general public will be admitted to the Town Hall and the concert chamber.

In an interview last evening, Mr Savage said that in his speech he will make brief reference to the result of the national financial year which ended on March 31. “I will not go into that extensively,” Mr Savage said. “I will simply give some indication of what the position is. It will just be by way of indicating that the country is not altogether bankrupt as some of our political opponents would have the world believe.”

Mr. Savage stated that subsequent to his address a full statement, as far as it could be made without audit, would be issued by the Minister of Finance the Hon W. Nash, on the position of the national accounts. The Prime Minister’s address on Wednesday evening will be broadcast by the stations of the National Broadcasting Service and the Invercargill station, but not by the National Commercial Service.

Referring to this last night, Mr Savage said that the same facilities would be allowed the Leader of the Opposition, Hon A. Hamilton, any time he cared to address a public meeting in a place where those facilities were available. “We will arrange for him to have the same time over the air as I have,” Mr Savage said.