THE BUDGET AND SOLDIERS’ SETTLEMENT.
Sir Joseph Ward, in discussing Die new Budget proposals, which embodied an amount of £2.0,325,000 for soldiers’ settlement, gratuities, and Expeditionary Force expenses, said: “This country could not stand twenty-nine millions, less the amount of Dio accumulated surplus which was to be taken, being put on the local market. Financial people would tell to-day that there was an unwillingness on the part of investors to subscribe to this loan.” And yet, in spite’of this evident unwillingness to rush the Victory Loan, the Moderate League, backed by the Trade, tire urging upon the public State purchase of the liquor business, which, if carried, would involve the raising of another £lO,000,000 to £15,000,000. To vote the business out altogether is the surest way of securing the soldier bis due. The Trade is concerned only about feathering its own nest and retiring in affluence at the country’s expense.®
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2037, 4 October 1919, Page 3
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150THE BUDGET AND SOLDIERS’ SETTLEMENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2037, 4 October 1919, Page 3
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