Government Spending
Sir, —In Saturday s issue you quote Mr Eyre, Minister of Housing, as saying "that the Labour Party are betting on winning office by promises, in spending your money, not their own.” He never made a truer statement. In 1949, the last year of Labour Government, they spent £135 million of your money to govern this country. The year just ended, according to the estimates, the Nationalist Government will spend £251 million of your money. Nearly twice as much as the Labour Government’s last year of office. This is the same Minister who a few months ago proposed, while a Minister of the Crown, to take a trip to Europe on his own private business, though to do him justice, he did propose to pay his own expenses. We all remember the criticism of Labour Ministers tripping overseas
on the taxpayers money. I wonder who is paying for all the present tripping.—Yours, etc., J. G. BARCLAY. May 5, 1957.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28270, 7 May 1957, Page 3
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161Government Spending Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28270, 7 May 1957, Page 3
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