AT WORK AGAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1941, Page 4

AT WORK AGAIN

RESUMPTION OF SESSION TODAY PRESENTATION OF BUDGET TOMORROW. MR NASH ON WAR COSTS. . (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The Budget, the sixth prepared by the Minister of Finance, Mr Nash, will be presented to Parliament tomorrow night. The House will resume its session, opened on March 12, this afternoon. After formal business has been disposed of, an adjournment will be made till 7.30 p.m. tomorrow. The debate on the Budget will be commenced on Thursday night. An extended discussion of the Estimates is anticipated. A Budget hint was given by Mr Nash, when speaking at the founda-tion-stone ceremony at the new Lower Hutt post office yesterday. He said that there was £63.000.000 in the post office savings bank; more than had ever been known previously in New Zealand. No other country, per capita of population, saved so much except under the war savings scheme in Great Britain. He hoped New Zealanders would note that and save even more.

He was going to tell the country on Wednesday night that it would cost as many million pounds for the war next year as one could think of quietly; as many as he had mentioned were in the post office savings bank. A speaker had stated that letter postage at 2d was still as much as many years ago. but of this 2d, a penny on every letter and telegram went to the war funds.