"BOOM!"
The Prime Minister's downrightne.s 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 be will not have so and so. that to some nervous ■ people must be almost as good as. a tonic. "I am not going to have any boom* here while I am about," he said yesterday to a deputation on housing. "That sort of j thing is no good to anybody." There j you are. There is not going to bo any j boom. Mr. Massey will prevent it. We | cannot help doubting ' whether this vigorous utterance will check the dangerously high prices of building sections or houses, but this may be only our politi\c. I prejudice. If experience is a teacher, I who knows better than Mr. Massey how to prevent a bootn? If the reformed rake is a valuable guide, teaching youth from experience what to avoid, Mr. Masfcey ougjit to be ab|e to do squiething 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.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 115, 16 May 1924, Page 4
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