NATIONAL CREDIT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1938, Page 8

NATIONAL CREDIT

DOMINION WILL PAY ITS WAY PRIME MINISTER REPLIES TO MR WESTON COMMENTS ON WHISPERING CAMPAIGNS (By Telegraph—Press Association). WELLINGTON, This Day. j “Mr Weston may know something about argument in the law courts but he has got a lot to learn about the money system,” said the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon M. J. Savage, replying in an interview last evening to recent references by the president of the New Zealand National Party, Mr C. H. Weston, K.C., to Mr Savage’s claim that he means “to make New Zealand’s purchasing power equivalent to her production.” “Our plain case,” Mr Savage said last night, “is that New Zealand is a long way from bankruptcy. Our production has broken all records. As long as I occupy the position of Prime Minister no one is going to go short, as was the case before we came into office." The alleged exposure of the reason for the whispering campaign against New Zealand in London, made by an Australian paper, was characterised by Mr Savage as a fairly correct statement of the position. “But you have not got to go to London for the whispering campaign,” he added. “You can find it in Australia. Some Australian politicians and economists seem to be more concerned about New Zealand affairs than about Australian. My advice to them is to mind their own business for a few moments. I can hardly find myself going to Australia qnd advising Australians what they should do. I have already refused to do that —during the recent election campaigns there. I sometimes wonder whether I was right in that attitude in view of the actions of some people there. At the same time, it is not right to blame a Government for some of the stupid utterances of some of its supporters. “This is quite clear to me —that we are going ahead by leaps and bounds,” Mr Savage said. “New Zealand will pay her way at home and abroad. I don’t know how much more anyone can expect.”