Please Explain

NZ Truth, Issue 1176, 14 June 1928, Page 6

Please Explain

. ■ ■ — ■ ■ — . j TO-NIGHT, Thursday, at a Reform rally to be held in the City Town Hall, the Prime Minister is advertised to' deliver an address. The time is therefore, opportune to remind him of his remarks in the same building in October, 1925, immediately preceding the general elections. On that occasion Gordon Coates said:— ; "It was proposed to go into the question of indirect taxation such as Customs, with the idea of giving the, people 'a • free breakfast table."' Reporting recently on the cost of living, the Government Statistician •mentioned that' goods , purchasable in July, 1914, for £ l now cost £ 1/12/2. 1 That Is precisely |he, same as the figures published in 1525 , so that the "free breakfast table" remains unset and the gratuitous menu continues, ; to be conspicuous by its absence. : . PerhaM the leader of the Reform party wijjl explain the reason,