THE WAKEFIELD POLICY.
At a dinner giveitby the iiive^tgrs of the New' Zealand Shipping OoiQpany intj board the Tongariro at Lyttelton, Recently, Mr E;:Wakefield m the., course of his speech said, though of course-, politics, were fojcjbidjden, Jhe thought there were two oourses open to' the public men : df tne Golony to do away ; with the depression. One of these was an abstinence from borrowing and spending lavishlyot. borrowed money. — (Cheers.) The othor was the institution of a liberal policy of Free-trade. (Cheers.) Ik,was absurd to initiate a scheme of direct steam communication and then io refuse to allow the goods to come m when they; wtre brought to their shoifeSi— (Cheers.) A liberal policy of Freetrade and ocean steam communication must, it seemed to him, go hanS m liain^ together, and if they had a Government bold enough to conjie 1 down ''■'■with -a : policy e «>f Freetrader -Bhctf as had madd England the glory of nations they will see I;his ; strong young, country rise above the difficulties which., now environed her, like the sun above the mist. — (Cheers.) ' I *
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 38, 12 January 1884, Page 2
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181THE WAKEFIELD POLICY. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 38, 12 January 1884, Page 2
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