PRESS OPINIONS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 125, 30 May 1930, Page 10

PRESS OPINIONS

FRANK AND CLEAR

REFORM COMMENT

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

AUCKLAND, This Day,

Introducing a column and a half of editorials dealing with national economy and the search for savings, the "New Zealand Herald" (Reform) pays the Hon. G. W. Forbes a unique compliment. It says: "The Prime Minister, in his newly assumed capacity as Minister of Finance, has issued a statement concerning the national accounts which will arrest attention. Mr. Forbes makes a very frank, clear, and unequivocal statement concerning the present.financial year, its prospects, and its difficulties. He is entitled to the utmost credit for the way in which ho has faced a most serious position and has taken the public into his confidence concerning it. It is something entirely new, coming from a Minister of Finance. True, what the Minister says is simply a summing up of a position that has been visibly developing for years; but that does not rob Mr. Forbes of the credit due to him for having acknowledged tho facts, for having set them out thoroughly and uncompromisingly. The position disclosed is one that can be handled only by the most resolute effort, by firmness in working toward the essential object of making ends meet nationally. The Prime Minister asks for the loyal co-operation and support of the people in tho onerous tusk; He will need them in full measure for the remedies to be applied. His frankness in coming forward with the full facts entitles him to tho assistance of the community in finding any applying specifies."