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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 8, 3 February 1909, Page 2

1" supporting Af r . Wilkin,on's c-niulia-iilure in <.*ollll ot*tion with the lortlicoiii('U'Clioil, Hie Wal , >».>•«:—"\\c support liim because lie i., a large importer «id man „ossesscd oI commercial experience. As an importer on a large scale lie is sanly brought into daily conlilet will, shipping matters. As a shrewd, keen 'jusiiiefs man lie lias to cl'osi'tv stndv importing charges ami lie lias to recognise that. to cheapen importing eharac* is !isi eihoiciit mellioil of placing ihe ' aranaki merchants on terms of greater equality witii Wellington and Auckland in striving to improve and ciieapen'Hie port lacilities at. New I'lvmoiith lie canlint, brni'tit the torn, at the expense of tile country."

llefcrrin;.' io recent criticism of Xew Zealand'- fiiinlice Ihe Lyttelton Times says : —Til )S!P") consols were ruii>t <h] ut lflll. liy l!i!W they |,ad rise,, („ and in I hut year Jlr Seddon was aide lo Hum. a :i per (tul. loan n( .cnii lis. an advance of C2 i, ;l,| upon n„. |, obtained liy his former Treasurer. But t o-day t*i in:?ixls stand al. !«, a drop of 281/, points compared Willi Hie quotalion of IS!)!), ,Tnd of points compared willi the quotation of ]SD-V and it is little wonder that colonial securities llave fallen in sympathy. \ew Soulli Wales I! per cenls. are now al 88. a drop of 11 points compared with the price of IX!!!). Soul li Australian ■> l'cr cents, at ST 1 /., a drop of 11 1 /, poinls. We do not propose to enter upon a discus-

siim of die causes thai have mnlriliuted to these rtoclmps, lmt it must Ue <>Uvious to every unbiassed observer Hull \"i'W Zealand lias suflVred niueh less ilian the Motherland, eonsiderahly less Ihaii Smith Aniridia, and only a' mere [ruction more" than New Sutilli Wales. There can he no other honest interpretation of (he figures, and il seems to us tliat onr friends are pkiving a very poor part in trying to find 'one that would cast suspicion upon the finances of the Dominion, I