“I GET LONELY”
MR SEMPLE ON CRITICS OF LABOUR.
“CAN GIVE IT AND TAKE IT."
"We have been called dreamers, visionaries, revolutionaries, Bolshevists. Communists and all the rest until we don’t know what we are going to be called next,” observed the Minister of Public Works, the Hon R. Semple, when defending the policy of the Labour Government in the Opera House' last night. “But we don’t mind,” he added, “in fact, when they knock off calling me names I get lonely.” “I do not object to rational criticism,” continued Mr Semple. “I welcome it. But there is a difference between clean and honourable criticism and slander. I have never shrunk from criticism. I can take it and I can give it too. I can also hit hard and often. Defaming people and attributing foul motives to them never got a nation out of trouble. It is only by everyone pulling their weight and fitting in somehow and somewhere into the scheme of things that puts nations on the road to security and prosperity. Healthy, rational, reasonable and constructive criticism is absolutely necessary in the public life of any country.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 June 1938, Page 6
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190“I GET LONELY” Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 June 1938, Page 6
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