RETRENCHMENT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 566, 22 July 1909, Page 4

RETRENCHMENT.

'..:'■. ',-1 ..'- '.'.:' '-■' •'■ . ■• '' ' ' ;' ■■■,■-■. .'- '.A FARMERS' UNI'ON, RESOLtmQN. : ! '"..'■ i(By; Telegraph—Press Association.),' ■'.;' \' ■ .S: ; • •■'■■ • Chrlstohurch, July 21. Mr. G. Lcadley moved -at 'a'.meeting of the North Canterbury Executive of the I'armera'v Union to-day that -the executive express gratification ■ with the efforts ; of' the Govorn T : monfr ; in the direction of .rctrcnchniciitjntho;. public, , service.'.; The .speaker said; the- Gov-.j ornmeiit deserved credit for ; .tackling, the seeing/the' position tfop Dominion had got into; in, view of'the largo;-amount,. of unproductive expenditure' tliat had beeail made previously. The Government was ontitled,to praise',: for .'attempting . to'.bring' things \vithi|i a managcablo. compass, As tho.i. Farmers': Union had not hesitated to blamo-' the Goyornmttot for what if deemed, to,, bo ". wrong iiv the Vast,; it, should. not aow-. with- \ Mdpraise whon.it wae due. .y': •-;,•. ;', ,' Mirl D, Jones'said it \ivas a matter for, satisfaction that retrenchments ; had been «f- : fected; a±. the eimo timo iS was to bo;n>: grettcd tlhat these economies were necessary. It n'«B not-able that tiio political party mafe--, ing the retronclimeiits lot the peoploin ' for increased expenditure on the public services in the, first place. .■.■'■-.'-•..' ';,,:■' ; -'' v Mr. Wilfrid Hall said it was' a matter for, gratification that tlio Goycrnnient ; hrtd to- ; straighten out .the condition it, had itself; created. Upon tho last occasion of that sort the Government responsible for the: tangle wont out.of office,; leaving its successors to, face tho-mus'ic. . This (tlio Atkinson) Gov-. ornmeitt tried to clear'-tilings'up, but got no credit for its efforts, and .'just as things wc-ro being got on ton satisfactory footing it went ... out of office. ' : ■.'•■ ' •■:'•: yv-..f The inotioji iraa carried. : . !: V .","' '-.'';