THE GOVERNMENT'S TASK.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 257, 30 October 1929, Page 6

THE GOVERNMENT'S TASK.

- - *wiv, ORDER OUT OP FINANCIAL CHAOS. ' (To the Editor.) Political finesse and artifice are SUrpKreduced to » fiue, hypercritical „ t find exception being taken the speed by Mi. S. Donaldson at tlie P. and T » • ou Saturday » ight . Tlllt of polities, ln which arena he has earned a well men ted reputation for speaking strait" merely emphasised the truth when he obim-J that "the Eeform party, ,hick tad cuts had promised to restore them and had failed to do so; that the United party had promised the same and had failed to give e fW to its promise; while he supposed tC f j thing would happen were a Labour Govern ment to come into power- The truth is 3* evident in the first two observations, wh t who can question the accuracy of the prophecy in the last-mentioned statement? Mr TTni land s guarded speech is in itself evicW • support. The fact is that Sir Ww ' entered office with the Treasury virtu,s bankrupt and was, as a result of" his inhpn tance from the Reformers, unable to carrfoS his promise. Could Labour do otherwise? Mr Holland is shrewd and artful enough to know that it is a question of money, which the Statt» cannot command at present, in consequence of a revenue deficit having to be mad* 1 a £2,000,000 to be found" for the "uperanS tion funds, the Post Office accounts havhi! to, be put on a business-like footing, the earth, quake damage repaired and anything un tn £1,000,000 paid for the .unemployment relief schemes. In these circumstances,* Mr. Donaldson's observation seems based oil sound premises. Why, then, try to hoodwink oursehes? The truth is, of course, that Sir Joseph Ward has a most unenviable task—that of evolving financial order .and stability out of the chaos bequeathed him by inept bank rupt Reform. " ONLOOKER."