Unfair Tactics
Sir, —I’m glad to see "Weary Willie” reminding Government speakers that the cost of the Great War is responsible for a large part of the increased national debt. Those speakers carefully omit to mention that increase of £80,000,000, plus the £11,000,000 for discharged soldiers; they also oinit to mention that £20,000,000 was for State Advances and therefore earned interest. They don’t mention £12,000,000 for hyqdro-electric works which are producing assets. Thus, of the £198,000,000 increase over the 21 years prior to 1935 —which the Government members allege to have been pure waste, we find over £90.000,000 connected with a war for which New Zealand was not responsible and £111,000,000 spent on producing assets. Hardly fair play—what?—l am, etc., AJAX. July 8, 1938.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 242, 9 July 1938, Page 13
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