"BOOM!"

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 115, 16 May 1924, Page 4

"BOOM!"

The Prime Minister's downrightne__ and self-confidence are among his most engaging traits. He has a way of thumping the table and saying he.will do so and so, or he will not have so and so. that to some nervojis' people must be almost as good as a tonic. "I am rfot going to have nny booms here' wjiile I am about," he said yesterday to a deputation on housing. "That sort of ; thing is no good to anybody." There j you are. There is not going to be any I boom. Mr. Massey will prevent it. We i cannot help doubting whether this vigorous utterance will cheek the danger- . ously high prices of building sections or houses, but this may be only our politi--1 cal prejudice. If experience is a teacher, i who knows better than Mr. Massey how to prevert a boom? If the reformed rake is a valuable guide, teaching youth from expedience what to avoid, Mr. Massey ought to be ab|c to do something to keep the country off the rocks . of another boom, for the most disastrous boom this generation has known occurred during his Premiership, and was largely i stimulated by the reckless purchase of | lands for soldiers, by his Government. 1