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Taihape Daily Times, 6 October 1919, Page 5

THE BUDGET AND SOLDIERS’ ' SETTLEMENT. .————-—-o— Sir Joseph War-d in discussing the new Budget proposals, which embodied an amount of £29,325,000 for soldiers? settlement, gratuities, and Expeditionary Force expenses, said, “this country could not stand twenty-nine mil--lions,'less the amount of the accumuled 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 iD.V'eStor_s to subscribe to the Victory Loan.” And yet, in spite of this evident unwillingness to rush the Victory Loan the Moderate League, backed by the Trade are urging upon the public State purchase of the liquor business, which, if carried, would involve the raising of another £10,000;000 to $115,000,000. To vote the business out altogether is the surest way of securing the soldier his due_ The Trade is iconcerned only about feathering its own nest and retiring in affluence at the counti-y’.s en-?pense.———(‘Ad’vt.)

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