STATE & THE SETTLER.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1994, 27 February 1914, Page 8

STATE & THE SETTLER.

THE PRESENT AIM ■-■ (By T?lcjf?v? l AisD'ciMion.) New frlyrnmitn, February' 2.6* The Hon.'J. Allen, addressing a Jtii-gci gatlitirfeg of farmers at a smoke concert .after iko Tsi'a.uaki Show, made a: is]t>e4;&li-, _ in which te touched on the ■ .difßeititj&i, which the- Gov-erniiKWt Wd ■in■-ltniaVwlKng thq.\ tangled' l skein of finance which the Ward (■totfci'n'meiit had top veil. So co-ri.doutt.ed the principle; of shtrrfc-driissd loaiis ; ,, which ha<j caused . him to go on thekandoii money matket' in order to liquidate tie liobilitics of his pJfio«lcGesSßrs in office, Tho pro-' sent Oovcrnnwnt Was out for sound finance, and bad raised moneys for ad-: 'Winces' to sefctlcrSj loans to lobftl heidiea', advances to workers, and land settle* mtni. They had gone hack tb iho old principle of assisting tiro hacjc.Mocfe pioneers, and had provided £250,000 for that purpose.. Whoa, his ■Gotcmrafint w£nt oat of office they wanted to •bo able to 'say that they.had. nevor reduced the maximum for loans 'M settlers, workers, or local bodies, but had increased them on safe lines. Critics (the Minister conttntico) .had said that thay had reduced ih.o revenue, hut ho would say tfeat they nad merely taken, from the revenue account what, ■should never .Jjave lieen there, and put it into the capital ■aetfliint,'' ' The. Minister also 'attacked the- Ward Government's,failure- to provide- for the Snfej-ahnuatiijn schemes w.hidh -it had brought in, and had left the present Sorerh.me.nt to put them <m a sound .ftfrancial' footing. Dealing, frith the land ■hHcsi.ien,/fo a4vQoatea tlio principle, of small scttiemftnts oh a secured ielutre. H:e •also defended the expenditure an Defence, and advocated the policy of » New (Zealand.'unit .'in the- Navy,