“AT LEAST SECURITY”

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20259, 30 July 1937, Page 2

“AT LEAST SECURITY”

DOMINION PRODUCERS. JIBE AT NATIONAL PARTY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. A tilt at the National Party was made by the Minister of Health, the Hon. P. Fraser, speaking at the Labour Party’s reception to the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, to-day. He was supported by the Prime Minister, who said he did not mind a little criticism, but the other fellow would have to take his gruel. “During the period you have been away our opponents have been making an effort to consolidate their forces. So far there is no evidence either of consolidation or of forces, as far as I can see,” said Mr Fraser. “If the consolidation of our opposition results in our defeat at the next election, we will have no complaint,” said Mr Savage. “If that does happen, and I do not think for a moment it will, the people need not expect to gain much. If we go out and other fellows who brought New Zealand to the lowest ebb come in again, some people will say this Government was not responsible for the high prices of wool. No, but this Government was responsible for a great deal more equity In the distribution of the high prices than any Government of the past.

“Although some dairy farmers may argue tTTey have not been getting the prices they think they ought to have been getting, I think all realise that at least they have got security.”