“POLITICAL FALLACIES”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1938, Page 4

“POLITICAL FALLACIES”

MR J. ROBERTSON ADDRESSES LADIES. A meeting of ladies in the Masterton Y.M.C.A. yesterday afternoon was addressed by Mr J. Robertson, M.P., who spoke on “Political Fallacies.” Dealing with the statement that the amount collected by the Labour Government in taxation at present was in excess of that gathered by the previous Government, Mr Robertson, while admitting that the excess was £906,000, said that the public should not forget that every eightpence in that sum represented another £1 of income. The facts of the old laissez-faire policty had now been reversed, said Mr Robertson. For every failure of State control there were 100 failures of private enterprise. He cited the case of State control of coal mines, which he said had prevented the price of coal from rising to exorbitant levels and had always had a stabilising effect on the industry generally. The State control of coal mines had saved the people of New Zealand millions of pounds. Government railways were really a paying concern, he said, if one took into account the part the service had played in the development of the country. After answering a number of questions Mr Robertson was accorded a vote of thanks.