REWARDS OF POLICY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 36, 13 February 1939, Page 8

REWARDS OF POLICY

ACTIONS OF LABOUR GOVERNMENT ADDRESS BY HON. ADAM HAMILTON [ Per Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, Feb. 12. "Some of the actions of the Labour Governmet in the last few months arc really disturbing New Zealanders. The National Party told the country before the elections what was going to happen but the people are influenced by experience and not by argument. They are learning by experience now." said the Leader of the Opposition, Hon. Adam Hamilton, in an address to a thousand National Party supporters yesterday. New Zealand had a wonderful name in the British Empire, Mr. Hamilton said, but it was now losing 1 hat name. The Labour Government had lived on the reserves and profit’s left by the previous Government, but is was now beginning to reap the rewards of its own policy. New Zealand was spending freely and dissipating the reserves and credits of the last hundred years. It was ironical that the Laboui Parly, which had done nothing towards building up New Zealand’s position, should soon be celebrating the Centenary. Now that Labour was against the wall there was dissension in the party. Mr. Hamilton added that there were some who wanted to carry on and smash the capitalistic system but there were others who were funking the fight because it was not going too easy. The people must I fight on and be united in then efforts.