Mr. Curtin has Confidence

Frank Curtin replied for the negative. Like Conrad, he took Mr. Holland's promises and systematically reviewed them. He attacked Conrad's assertion about education policy as factually incorrect. In fact, instead of the grant decreasing it had been increased. I rank claimed that the people of New Zealand were realistically minded and thoroughly supported the present foreign policy. The strongest point in his argument was that the pie-sent Government had carried out its pre-election pledges with respect to industrial matters, and that its treatment of the watersiders was fully supported by the great majority of the people of New Zealand. Frank admitted that there had been an inflationary trend in New Zealand but he maintained that it had been evident in the years before the Nationalists had come to power and was a world-wide movement, beyond the power of any administration to alter.