A QUESTION EVADED.
APPARENTLY the Government intends to go to the polls without declaring its policy regarding the. country quota. In reply to a request by the Makara County Council for a definite statement on the subject, the Prime Minister, it was reported yesterday, referred the council to his earlier reply to the Dominion Secretary of the Farmers’ Union. On the occasion to which he thus refers, however, Mr Savage did not make a definite statement on the subject of the country quota. On the contrary, he refused to make any reply to the specific question whether he would pledge the Government not to alter the country quota during the term of the next Parliament in the event of Labour again being returned to power. It is only reasonable to assume that'if the present Government had no intention of altering the country quota it would say so. The threat implied in the Prime Minister’s refusal to make any real reply to questions on the subject is thus manifest.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 October 1938, Page 4
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168A QUESTION EVADED. Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 October 1938, Page 4
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