SOUP KITCHENS AND SUGAR BAGS
TO THE EDITOR OE THE PRESS. Sir, —Your correspondent “Alexis” forgets that the depression was manmade, food commodities being hoarded or burnt to raise prices for the insatiable greed of a few. The result was unemployment, soup kitchens, and sugar-bags for the masses. The Forbes-Coates Government is not blamed for the depression, but for its apathetic reaction to it. Why did it not start industries and other works, making New Zealand self-supporting, instead of flitting to England borrowing, always borrowing? As for Mr Nash trying to get conversion of the £17.000,000. I think New Zealand would be wise to default, as many worthy businessmen and farm* ers have had to do at various times. Why should the masses have to suffer because the old Tory leaders got the country into a borrowing financial m =«-Your S . etc.. ahead Rangiora, July- 20, 1939.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22769, 22 July 1939, Page 20
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