A RASH STATEMENT.
In the course of an address at lngliewood this week, Sir Joseph Ward stated that "the farmers ought to remie/mlber that during the tightness of the money market in. the Dominion three years ago, it was the Government and the Government alone that had kept the money market by borrowing money and lending it out to farmers at low rates of interest." The Prime Minister h«s ; made many rash statements of fate, but this one just about eclipses the lot. We have reason to know that, when the money miarket was tight three years ago, and when the Government should' have come to the assistance Of farmers, its bowels of compassion' were absolutely closed. The Advances to Settlers Office would net lend any sum more than £SOO, and only in exceptional cases, was this amount available.. As a matter of fact, the Advances to Settlers Office was for mouths and months -nothing more than a dead letter. How, then, can the Piriire Minister dare take credit for assisting the farmers in a crisis:-'
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10492, 1 December 1911, Page 4
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176A RASH STATEMENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10492, 1 December 1911, Page 4
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