INCONSISTENCY.
The Oartcrtcu "News" charges us with inconsistency because we happened to rurgo flint of it docs not cost more t onun the country to-day than it ddd ton years ago, and we can* show a, suiplus of three-quarters of a million, there should be a remission of taxes. Where, in the aiiame of logic, does the inconsistency -come in? If •we aire to bs (self-contained, and do without borrowing, wiry not frame oxw estimates accordingly ? If things were main aged as they should be, we could do very well, in a. few years' time, without resorting to the English money market, alnd without surpluses. To •borrow on tbe one hand, and to show a surplus on. the other, is ju.st about as toad (business as one could conceive.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10620, 27 April 1912, Page 4
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129INCONSISTENCY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10620, 27 April 1912, Page 4
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