THE COMMONWEALTH
PUBLIC DEBT.
FINANCES OF THE STATES. 'A SPEECH BY SIR J. CAHITOTHERS. (DI TELEGRAPH —rRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (ltec. July 23, 10.2 p.m.) London, July 23. At a meeting of the Australasian Chamber of Commerce, tho President (Sir John Cookburn) in the. chair, Sir Joseph (Jarruthers doliverod an address on the position and resources of New South Wales. In a spirited defence of Australian finance, ho claimed that the whole interest of tho public debt was being paid by the net earnings of tho public works. Australia was rapidly becoming independent of tho London monoy market. He was confident that the Australian people would not tolerate the Commonwealth's disposition to encroach on the States' proportion of tho ■ Customs. He urged British people to use Australian wines, which were capable of immense development. • He declined to regard' Australia's increasing trade with the East' as a danger or an evil.'
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19080724.2.29
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 258, 24 July 1908, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
149THE COMMONWEALTH Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 258, 24 July 1908, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in