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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 14, No. 10. August 9, 1951

[Introduction]

The Debating Society held, its most successful meeting recently when the heavy artillery of the Left and Right Wing contested the subject, "That the present Government as lost the confidence of the people of this country." It was an or of the committee to word the topic in this way; it would have been far less restricting if the subject had been put: "That this meeting has no confidence in the present Government."

Conrad Bollinger opened the case for the affirmative, by making a grand review of Mr. Holland's seven-point election broadcast of 1949. "He promised us that the £ would go further, but in fact by decontrolling prices and lifting subsidies prices had sky-rocketed. He promised us a sane education policy, but in fact he had cut the number of bursaries and reduced grants to education boards. He promised us that he would extend Social Security, even though he had attacked it at its outset as "applied, lunancy." In office he had, in practice, only made sporadic hand-outs which even his own party opposed. He had promised us an independent foreign policy, but in the banqueting chamber in Washington it was America "Right and Wrong." Mr. Holland had promised us he would abolish compulsory unionism and this was a plank in his policy with which the Left-wing wholeheartedly agreed but when in office he shamelessly farted to fulfil his pledge because if he did his own stooges in the trade union movement would suffer."