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IMPROVEMENT EVIDENT Community Shows Confidence MR. FORBES PLEASED By Telegraph—Press Assoeiation. CHRISTCHURCH, March 19. “There has certainly been an improvement in revenue from Customs and other sources which is pleasing,” said the Prime Minister, the Rt, Hon. G. W. Forbes, this evening when commenting on the approach of the end of the tlnancial year. Ho said ho could say nothing about the extent of ths improvement until he saw the figures, but receipts were better than had been estimated, and the Government would be helped by th# change, “The improved position is an assurance of more confidence on the part of the community, and it shows that people are now doing some of the things that they had suspended for so long,” said Mr Forbes. “I was in a shop to-day when a dealer in building supplies iiaid that his business had never been better. I have been very pleased to learn that people are now beginning to move instead of standing still as they have done for so long.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 83, 20 March 1934, Page 9
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