WHAT OF TOMORROW

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1943, Page 2

WHAT OF TOMORROW

National Party’s Blueprint for Future. The National Party has produced a blue print for the future. But the original architect’s plan from which the blueprint was made was Labour’s. The National Party’s Rehabilitation programme bears such a striking resemblance to Labour’s successful scheme that apparently no improvements were thought necessary. Social Security has been borrowed whole-heartedly and with acclamation by a party which fought its introduction bitterly and cut old-age pensions from 17s 6d a week to 15s 9d a week. Since Labour pointed the way, the: National Party has become conscious of a housing problem and blame Labour for not curing in four years of peace a condition for which the Nationalists were responsible. Some National Party candidates now advocate support for N.Z. secondary industries; others refer to them as “uneconomic evils.” Labour has made it possible for new factories to open at the rate of three a week, and production has set new records every year.

The architect of New Zealand’s newfound prosperity has been the Labour Government which has found, new and resultful ways of tackling old problems. No pale copy of Labour’s original ideas can be backed by the sincerity and purpose that its creators bring to the job. The Rt. Hon. Peter Fraser has expressed his determination to finish the task of bringing economic security to every home in New Zealand—and security for its people must be the ultimate goal of every Government. No other Government has banished want and privation so successfully as the Labour Government. Labour stands for economic security for all. Vote Labour again!—Advt,

In connection with the list of donations to the Patriotic Fund published in Saturday’s “Times-Age,” the name Mrs E. M. Wrigley should have been Mrs E. N. Wrigley, and Miss Jean Gray should have read Miss Joan Gray.