DOMINION FINANCE.
Shobn of all the glamor of an oratorical effect from tbe public platform and of bis personal magnetism, the Treasurer’s statements does not carry a very convincing assurance that all is well with the Dominion’s finances, remarks the Mataura Ensign. It is all very well to denounce as traitors those who raise a warning voice, but the fact remains that in every one of the departments of tbe Stale enormous increases took place last year. And this on top of similar excessive increases in previous years. No wonder the Government has set about retrenchment. We have a splendid country, great resources, but it cannot carry much more similar loading. Not only retrenchment to the extent of the quarter of a million which has been promised should be made, but we will not be surprised if another quarter of a million on top of that has to be cut out before a sound financial basis is reached.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 458, 25 May 1909, Page 2
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158DOMINION FINANCE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 458, 25 May 1909, Page 2
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