REPLY TO CHALLENGE

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20819, 1 June 1939, Page 3

REPLY TO CHALLENGE

SOCIAL SECURITY INSTRUCTIONS (By Telegraph.—press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday Replying to a challenge issued by the National Party candidate in the Christchurch South by-election. Mr M. E. Lyons, asking him to publish the set of instructions issued to officers of the Social Security Department, the Prime Minister, the Right Hon. M. J. Savage, to-day said: “If Mr Lyons thinks there is anything questionable in these instructions, let him publish them.” Mr Savage added that Mr Lyons’ own intelligence should tell him that there were many regulations and details connected with all Acts of Parliament that were not necessarily embodied in the Act itself. He could assure Mr Lyons and the public that the provisions of the Social Security Act would be carried out in full. “I will take the opportunity of referring to another statement which Mr Lyons has made,” continued the Prime Minister. “lie has said that a certain person is in New Zealand at present and that he is here on the same sort of mission as he was on when he was in Newfoundland some time ago. “In reply to that I would say that, again, the decent thing for Mr Lyons to do is to come out into the open and tell the public what he knows.”