HIGHER TAXATION
MR HAMILTON CRITICISES GOVERNMENT. WELL-ATTENDED MEETING AT NEW PLYMOUTH. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 16. The Leader of the Opposition, the Hon Adam Hamilton, addressed a large meeting in New Plymouth tonight. The opera house was full, about 1300 being present, while many hundreds were unable to gain admission to the hall, some remaining outside to listen to a loudspeaker service. Mr Hamilton was given a very good hearing and at the conclusion a vote of thanks to him and confidence in and support for the National Party was carried by acclamation with apparently only a small proportion of dissentients. Mr Hamilton referred to a reported statement by the Minister of Labour, the Hon H. T. Armstrong, that the Labour Government had not increased taxation, but that the yield was greater because of the higher national income. Mr Hamilton quoted the Budget speech of Mr Nash, when he said that to meet the pensions increases he would raise £1,000,000 by tax. Mr Armstrong’s statement, therefore, was incorrect and the Government had increased taxation. Referring to the controversy over the alleged closing of the savings bank accounts while he was Postmaster-Gen-eral, he said Mi- Savage had accepted his correction, but the present Post-master-General, the Hon F. Jones, had subsequently taken the matter up while travelling the country. He had not access to all the papers, but when he had an opportunity he would reply to Mr Jones on this matter. His address followed the lines of those given in other centres and he concluded by emphasising that the two words security and freedom represented what the National Party stood for. He declared that the Government’s policy was bringing Socialism, the avowed object of Labour, nearer, and expressed his party’s strong opposition to that policy and objective. He said he was gratified at the large attendance because it showed people were taking their responsibilities seriously. While people were interested, democratic government was safe. At a later stage he said the Dominion was heading toward a totalitarian State, not one on the lines of Hitler or Mussolini but on the lines of that of Stalin.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1938, Page 7
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