WAIRARAPA SEAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1938, Page 9

WAIRARAPA SEAT

ADDRESSES BY NATIONAL CANDIDATE. COMPARISON OF/ PROSPERITY. Mr J. F. Thompson, National Party candidate for Wairarapa, addressed about 50 electors at Taueru on Monday night, Mr H. Morison being in the chair. The candidate had an excellent reception. Dealing with the Social Security Act Mr stressed the injustice under its provisions to a person having had an accident or becoming sick away from his home town. In that case he would have to pay for his medical attention and treatment. Mr Thompson quoted Mr Lee Martin as having stated that while stock firms had done good work in the past, he thought the Government could give a better and cheaper service to the farmers. He also quoted Mr Savage, who said he wanted to assure his good friends in the stock and station agencies and in the banking corporation that he had enough worries with Continental and local affairs without butting into their affairs, if they would only do their job. If they did not do their job the Government would do it for them. Was that not a threat to enterprise? It would appear as if Mr Savage would deciffe what firms were not doing their jobs. He warned the people' what might happen if Labour got back to power. On the motion of Mr Birch the speaker was accorded a vote of thanks. Mr Thompson received an attentive hearing when he spoke at Dyerville on Monday afternoon. He compared Socialist prosperity with real prosperity in New South Wales from 1932, when a Nationalist Government was called in to save the State after Mr Lang’s Government had brought it to the verge of disaster. Under the New South, Wales Government since 1932, by encouraging, private enterprise instead of extravagant public works, 310,000 men had been absorbed into industry. The unemployed (all classes) under Labour in 1932 was 260,000, and these numbers had, under National rule in New South . Wales, been reduced to 42,000. In 1932 the unemployed in New Zealand under the Coalition Government numbered 68,650, and this had been reduced by Labour to 35,000. The dwellings erected in 1936-37 in Sydney and suburbs (population 1,235,267) were 8193. In New Zealand, with a population of 1,587,211 the number built, under Labour, was only 4555. The wages tax on £4 a week (man with two children) was, in New South Wales, nil. In New Zealand, under Labour, it was £6 18s 8d per annum, plus registration fee.

The speaker was loudly applauded on resuming his seat.