WESTPORT WORRIES
FINANCIAL TROUBLE AHEAD QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE (THE SUN'S Parliamentary Reporter) PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Today. Financial troubles are starting to worry the people o£ Westport after the earthquake. In an urgent question to the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Ward. Mr. H. E. Holland stated that the wholesale firms were starting to press the retailers in Westport for their money, and in turn the retail houses had to press their customers. Considering the circumstances in which the people found themselves today it was difficult tor them to pay. He wanted to know of the Prime Minister it lhere were any means of asking the wholesale houses to stop the pressure in the meantime. The Prime Minister answered that he would be glad to look into the position.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19290713.2.48
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 714, 13 July 1929, Page 7
Word Count
130WESTPORT WORRIES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 714, 13 July 1929, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in