THE BUDGET

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21582, 19 September 1935, Page 7

THE BUDGET

TO THB EDITOJI Or TUB FKKSB. Sir, —I have just been listening over the air to the Wellington station's report of the financial statement of Mr Coates, who makes fearful and wonderful claims in taking credit for himself and Government in "balancing" the Dominion's budget ~ Few of us who have suffered the years' infliction of this "sheepcombination and paid in unjust -taxation, loss of income, reduction of interest, compulsory conversion of bonds and stock, loss of capital by having every earned British pound declared worth only 15s, and all bargains and contracts shamelessly annulled, are likely to accept such palpable election bait or to regard, in the dying hours of such a government, its members as "statesmen." What a bunch of carrots the Farmers" Government holds out to x>ld age pensioners—"burnt-out" soldiers too—and fancy, it has taken four years to awaken to these necessities. I wonder if post and telegraph officials, recognition of whose society ■was so insultingly withdrawn by Mr | Forbes and who have been for four years working for salaries less than the local corporation head-dustman, will view or nibble at the farmers' bunch of vegetables—will they bite? I think not. J Hislop and his • Democrats "for us—every time. —Yours, etc., ANTI-CARROT. September 18, 1935.