THE POULTRY INDUSTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 6, 7 January 1905, Page 6

THE POULTRY INDUSTRY.

RA\nNGS BANK INTEREST.

SIR JOSEPH WARD REPLIES TO MR. MASSEY.

(By Telesraph.—rress Association.)

' IXVERCAROILL. Friday. j Sir -T. Ward- intoniev.rd to-day ;n to j Mr. Masspy 5 * comments in Auckland ou ! the disparity between the Government.":; ! expenditure on the poultry industry and j the returns therefrom, it was not ,to be expected that in starting 3 new j industry it should pay from the jirm]i. That Ihe Government had done the risrht thitis wn.s shown by the fact that ths returns of the second year were much larger in proportion ro the Department's expenditure i<n the poultry section. :vnd i tie pxpeetPtl that, as in other branches i where the Government had taken up the interests of producers, the induotry j would soon he on a footing. J With regard to .i sarcastic- reference to remarks in Parliament against Mr. Massey's that in fairness to the depositors of the Savings Bank in- • tcrest should bo. raised. Sir Joseph said jhe still held the belief thnf the raising of thp Savings Bank rair wa.- a mistake, ! even in the interp«te nf fhe snnll dejpositor?. as it tended to limit emplorImcut. lli~ moito wa.- plenty of money |nt cl'.enp rate-. Tiia! v-j- the \\ zy to ■keo|i tbr country prosperou-.