LIBERAL PARTY RECORDS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 May 1911, Page 2

LIBERAL PARTY RECORDS.

" Founders of the Progressive Liberal Policy " is tin* titling of ;i well-executed sheet of photographic reproductions uow to hand from tho Progicssive Liberal League, Welj lington. The late Sir George Grey, i ihe late lion. Jo'hn JJallanco, and I the late. Hon. J?. J. Seddon fill pro- ! ntinent places on the sheet, and the { contra! square is filled by the memJ Irrs of the present Administration. .' An excellently coloured picture of j :'y.f Jo'-fpli V.'ard, Premier of New ! Zealand, occupies tho principal I place in the picture, and in the lowor division appeal , the various members of tho Liberal Party. Some exceptionally interesting letterpress regarding the principal policy Acts passed during the last eighteen years will be found useful by all supporters of the present Government during the year-end elections. From a "general summary" we extract the information that from 1891 until the present year the population of New Zealand and its dependencies increased from 625,508 to 1,052,440. During the same period New Zealand's total export and import trade increased from £16,070,24(5 to £'6\),230,728, and tho revenue of the dominion, grew from £4,146,230 to £9,238,917. The total wealth of Xew Zealand, after deducting its debt, has grown from £160,000,000 to £354,000,000. For every pound sterling borrowed by New Zealand since the present party came into power (and the record comments that every penny of that money is obtaining more than the interest paid for it—the wealth of the country has grown seven tiroes as fast as its debt. The number of porsons who paid tax on incomes over £300 per aniunni, lias grown during the last ten years from 5656 to U y 175; or in other words, the number of persons who have incomes of over £300 has increased five times as fast as the population.