CRY FOR ECONOMY

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3850, 5 October 1932, Page 5

CRY FOR ECONOMY

A MEMBER'S PROTEST (Per Pre s s Association) Wellington, October 4. ■•This coyitinu d cry of economy has created a community pt-ye.mlogy of non-spending,” said Mr A. Harris (Government, Waitemata) during the debate on the Address- tu-Reply in the House. Ho wa s not ait all satisfied that a. policy of factional lmiKiverishmeitt was sound. It could not 1,0 said that toe legislation passed during the past two years ha«l proved adequate to the needs of tic I country. The cry for economy had had •the effect of discour-agfig .spending. Citizens thud ‘tightened up their purse strings, tend money had boon kept out of circulation. ’Wiiej hu l caused incalculable harm.