THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
The Great Forward Movement. He could remember by heart what the Reform advertisements promised during the election. AYe were on the eve of a great forward movement. It was said so. He looked for signs of it in the Budget. It told them that there wpa to be a tapering-off in public works, not a forward movement, rnd two and a half millions further writings off from soldiers’, lands, which \, as not a forward movement, but a disastrous retreat. Nothing had been done to get back any of the money lost on the high price of land from those who sold it to the Government. The public debt, however, had moved forward by eleven millions, and it could reasonably be said that the main feature of the Budget was an explanation cf the reasons for this forward movement of debt and what was to be done about •repayment. An examination of the State Advances Department statement showed that there was not much of a movement there.—Air (J. Forbes, ALP.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1926, Page 2
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173THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1926, Page 2
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