THE PRIME MINISTER.
SPEECH AT HASIINGS. f \CRK A-SED REV EX U E FU.'RESll ADO WED. [Press Association.] HASTINGS. Jan. 27. The Prime Minister this afternoon laid the foundation stone of the new post office, Hastings, in the presence of a large number of residents. In the course of his speech, Sir Joseph Ward said that the erection of the building -was a tangible evidence of the policy of the Government in putting up permanent public buildings of the kind that was wanted. Jie spoke of the wonderfully successful results of the operations of the Post and Telegraph Department, and went on to give an assurance that the statement ox the Dominion’s finances for the last nine months, which would come out very shortly, would show that New Zealand was the only one of all countries, including America anil the United Kingdom, to show an increased revenue. He commented upon the progress made by Hastings during the last- few years, and said that its wonderful future was due to tlie cutting -up of the land —a policy which the Government were determined to continue.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2411, 28 January 1909, Page 5
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