GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE.
PRIME MINISTER'S WARNING,
(SrECIAL TO "THE PRESS.") WELLINGTON, November o. The announcement that tho Minister of Finance was allocating for tho needs of the Minister of Pensions the sum of £■50,000, was alluded to in tho House by Mr Poland, who asked whether the amount named was all that tho Government proposed to divide amoncr the various classes of civil pensioners in the country. The member submitted that to give the old age pensioners alone an increase of os a week would require the payment of a sum far in cxccss of £50,030, and lie submitted that £-50,000 was a ridiculously small amount. The Prime Minister said that it was absolutely impossible for him to find money on the scale that the member suggested. Tt was no use attempting to do it. lie was not going to assist in running this country into financial disaster, and that was where the matter would end if the requests made on all sides were acceded to. Ho "wished Parliament to be as economical as possible in tho expenditure of public moneys. At present ho was doing all he possibly could. The country was going too fast in its expenditure, and it would have to steady up.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16985, 6 November 1920, Page 8
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