COMPULSORY LOAN
ATTACKED BV MR DOIDGE UNEXAMPLED HARSHNESS ALLEGED. APPEASEMENT OF LABOUR MILITANTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The interrupted debate on war finance was resumed in the House of Representatives today by Mr F. W. Doidge (Tauranga) who said the Government was issuing a loan in a form to appease the militants of its own party. It talked of an all-in policy, but the compulsory loan applied only to a few prosperous taxpayers and companies. Nowhere else in the British Empire had there been found necessary a compulsory loan of the type announced in New Zealand and he claimed that not even in Germany and Italy had there been recourse to such a harsh loan. PETROL RESTRICTIONS. Mr E. P. Meachen (Marlborough) said he could not understand the mentality of those who criticised the Government for restricting petrol. People with private cars should think themselves lucky to get any measure of petrol at all, and he drew attention to the staggering amount of petrol required for war purposes, particularly the training of airmen. The debate was adjourned at 1 p.m.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1940, Page 6
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