OUTLOOK FOR DOMINION.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 June 1922, Page 4

OUTLOOK FOR DOMINION.

«A GOOD TIME COMING.” MINISTER’S OPTIMISTIC NOTE. Dealing with the repatriation scheme, the Minister for Labor (the Hon. G. J. Anderson), speaking at New Plymouth yesterday, said the people of New Zealand had spent £28.600,000 on the work of repatriating soldiers, whilst the total the Government had spent, including gratuities, and the large amount which the people of New Zealand had subscribed, was £48,000.000. This, he said, was half the total cost of New Zealand's share in the war. Some people said the soldiers who were taking up land under the scheme were going bankrupt. He replied that only 706 men had thrown over their sections, and these had been immediately re taken up by other soldiers at a profit of some £60,000. Those who said, in effect, that we were “going to Halifax” were not New Zealanders, and they were not Britishers. Of course, people were faced at the present time with heavy taxation, but there was no other way out of the difficulty. But there is a good time coming, said the speaker. Wool is going up shortly. He had received a letter from England written in April which said that B.A.W.R.A. wool would be all out of hand in twelve months, whilst a year a.go it was expected to be ten years before stocks would he cleared. Referring to the meat pool, Mr. Anderson said he was satisfied its formation would have a beneficial effect on the sale of our meat in the Old Country. The financial position would ease soon, when we would have a good business basis to work upon, and the country must forge ahead.