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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1939, Page 5

OUTLOOK DISTURBING

MR HAMILTON ON RESULTS OF LABOUR RULE LESSONS OF EXPERIENCE. DISSENSION SAID TO EXIST IN PARTY.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, February 12. “Some of the actions of the Labour Government in the last few months are really disturbing New Zealanders. The National Party told the country before the elections what was going to happen, but people are influenced by experience and not by argument. They are learning by experience now,” said the Leader of the Opposition,” the Hon A. Hamilton, in an address to 1000 National Party supporters yesterday. “New Zealand had a won,derful name in the British Empire.” Mr Hamilton said, “but it is now losing that name. The Labour Government had lived on the reserves and profits left by the previous Government, but it is now beginning to reap the rewards of its own policy.” New Zealand was spending freely, dissipating the reserves and credit of ■the last 100 years. It was ironical that the Labour Party, which had done nothing toward building New Zealand’s position, should soon be celebrating the Dominion’s centenary. Now that Labour was against the wall there was dissension in the party, Mr Hamilton added. There were some who wanted to carry on and smash the capitalistic system, but there were others who were funking. The fight was not going to be easy. The people must fight on and be united in their efforts.