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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 17 February 1921, Page 5

"Wasters'* in French Public Departments are in for a difficult time, as the Government, the Senate, and "the Chamber are all on their track. M. Francois-Marsal, the Finance Minister,; has delayed bringing forward his esti- • mates for next year to have an oppor- ' tunity of cutting out every halfpenny of inadvisable expenditure. He has been helped by President Millerand and W M. Leygues, and the three of them have cut out £160,000,000. Another Commission of the Senate is equally de-*--<MTnined to secure immediate economy, to save France from bankruptcy, and urges still stricter supervision. The ■ economy campaign in France has already Jiad. one big effect, for Parisians have been overjoyed to learn that no additional taxes will be levied next year.