THOUCHTS FOR THE TIMES
Political Issues. Politicians are proverbially shortsighted; if tliCy can see tlicr wav for the current year they are content. There should be some wider grasp of the country’s, conditions. We arc not even certain whether the railways we build will ever pay; we know that soii'i? built in the past-have never paid. If railways were the one form of transport we must take the risk, hut roads offer an alternative at a smaller cost. The first requisite is a reduction of taxation. Wo should then seriously inquire whether nil annual loan is a necessity, and whether economies in State expenditure might not provide the funds required for opening up the countrv.—Waikato “Times.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1926, Page 2
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116THOUCHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1926, Page 2
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