POT LUCK POLITICS
TIME FOR A CHANGE.
(By Telegraph—Special (o ' .>-.t.ir.'-| TAURANGA. this day. Tlie high cost of living, a < Sir Joseph Ward has explained to the Tauranga electorate, is undoubtedly due largely to the moratorium, ft will lie remembered that Sir Joseph, while in the Coalition Ministry, warned Mr. Massey that his method of purchasing bind for soldiers' settlement would result in boom prices and high cost of living. He anticipate.l the result, but Mr. Massey trusted to luck, and his whole policy lias been very much on the same lines". To-day he is endeavouring to stem the tide "by a paltry reduction in the Customs duty on tea, while his candidate (Mr. Macmiilan) heralds butter as the panacea for all our financial troubles. What the family man is most concerned about is how to get a cheap loaf on his breakfast table. The solution to the problem involves very serious matters, which. as Sir Joseph Ward has pointed out, require the consideration of the best brains of the country.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 73, 26 March 1923, Page 8
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