THE PREMIER AT HASTINGS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 3, 28 January 1909, Page 2

THE PREMIER AT HASTINGS

REFERENCE TO THE DOMINION'S FINANCES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hustings, Last Night. 4 The Prime Minister this afternoon laid ■thi! foundation-stone of tin; new I'ost Ollico at Hastings, in the presence of u large number of residents. in the i-oui'Sß of a-speech, Sir Joseph Ward said the erection of the building was a tangible evidence of the policy of the (jovemmeat in putting up permanent public buildings of the kind that was wanlwl. He spoke of the wonderfully successful result of the operations of the I'ost and Telegraph Department, and went on to give assurance Hint the statement, of the Dominion's finances for tile last nine months, which would conic mil mmt shortly, would show that New Zealand was the only one of all countries, 111,7 eluding America and the United King-1 iloni, to show increased revenue. lie commented upon the progress made by Hastings during the last few veins, and said that its wonderful future wlls due to the cutting up of land, a policy which the Covornincnt was determined to continue.