"MILD CRITICISM"

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 9

"MILD CRITICISM"

ME. FOEBES'S BUDGET

HOPES FOR FUTURE

"I judge from the. mildness of the criticism of the Budget," said the Prime Minister (the Hon. G. W. Forbes), in the House of Beprusentatives yesterday afternoon, "that no good- case has been niado against the proposals."- (Beform laughter.)

Anyone reading the Budget and the reasons given for what it was proposed to do, he said, must admit that the proposals were logical and sound. The member for Dunedin West (the Hon. W. Downie Stewart) had not raised any really serious arguments. He did not think Mr. Stewart subscribed to the view of those who said the Government was over-estimating, or that he would say the Estimates were not as nearly correct as it was possible ;o make them. While the jir-cumstanees had necessitated a departure from the policy the Government would like to have pursued, he hoped the time would como when they would be able to put into operation everything that was referred to in the United Party's manifesto.

Mr. Stewart: "You are not going into any borrowing, are you?"

Mr. Forbes: "The borrowing proposals are in the Budget, and they are confined to the very necessaiy works that are required throughout the country." Some hard things had been «Taid in criticism of the financial proposals, he added, but they would be soon forgotten.