OUR WAR BILL

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 69, 21 March 1916, Page 4

OUR WAR BILL

'-", —~—; £100,000 PER MOUTH. PREMIER AT PATQIAHOE. f The Prime Minister. (Right Homflr. F. Massey) was banqueted at Vktiy £ mahoc last night, Mr. J. Henry, chijr-: man of the local Reception, presiding. A very pleasant . ..eveoiKy » was spent, in the course of. Trnw| ;%■• s Massey and his colleague, (Dr. Poin§r«) ~ both made happy speeches in respow, ? tq toasts. . ... .... _ . The Premier, in the course bf> hi* rt- - marks, warned the people, of New .Zetland against being led into the soft &" lusion that war prices for then" prtd** '. would continue to, come.in "after .to.-' '' war, and also pointed put ttat S»?T' '" Zealand would later on have to . ployment for large numbera *P retiiraM;' men. Our present.war. expendittirc, *•. _ remarked, had reached, the formriabk;" s sum of £S()d,(K)0 monthly, and" furtW v increases loomed ahead. .. QM^ty!?y • was certain, however, and that.,?u V* t Zealand's ability, with the energy^;. her people and the quality of .itt W a ducts, .to recover from the .itraiijg; / the war more quickly thak anj. o»|[ • j country. (Loud applause tad. c Discussing our training campV-1£ Massey declared that the whole-bi to arrangements were now as nearly; p£ ,' foct as human ingenuity .'couMV*ff-:\-. 11 them. His remarks applied to., W; | c Trcntham and Featheretpn -Csi»p; which had been declared by I, tary officers as being the two ****|V' i. the world. The Maori CamP-tt. I**'1 **' i- row Neck, agreed the Premier *X*)£'' _ Pomare, was the model camp for •■ other two. " '■"■*