GENERAL NEWS
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The outlook is not black, however severe the present crisis may be (writes the Wellington Dominion). In the meantime the local bodies and the public must do whatever is possible. To make suggestions to a Government that lias run out of funds would he a waste of time. The public will do well In draw the proper lesson from the present situation. which is the unwisdom of permitting a continuance of the conditions ol administration that make n serious crisu of unemployment possible in a country that is by nature far richer in resources than any other country of equal magnitude. .With the return of blue skies the old round will begin again. Heavy borrowing. thoughtless extravagance—and, unless this is cheeked, wentually a move serious crisis than ever. Remove the temptation to go wrong, and the country cannot fail to flourish. Nothing would be easier than for Parliament to vote a' large loan for public works when it meets in October. But it is to he hoped that any extravagant proposal of this kind wiil be resisted. Diet and sound living, and not drugs, are what the country's health requires.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 140, 12 July 1909, Page 4
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196GENERAL NEWS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 140, 12 July 1909, Page 4
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