NATIONAL ECONOMIES.

Mataura Ensign, 22 July 1909, Page 3

NATIONAL ECONOMIES.

—4 FARMERS' UNION APPROVAL, PEE UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURC'H, July 21. Mr G. AY. Leadley moved at a meeting of the North Canterbury Executive of the Farmers' Union to-da.v "That the executive express gratification at the efforts of the Government in the direction of retrenchment in tho public service." The speaker said tho Government deserved credit for tackling the question, seeing tho position tho Dominion had got into in view of the large amount of unproductive expenditure that had been made previously. The Government was entitled to praise for attempting to bring things within a manageablo compass. As the Farmers' Union had not hesitated to blame the Government for what it deemed to be wrong in the past, it should not now withhold praise when it was due. Mr D. Jones said it was a matter for satisfaction that retrenchments had boon effected. At the same time it was to be regretted that these economics were necessary. It, was notable that the political party making tho retrenchments had let tho people in for increased expenditure on tho public services in tho first place. Mr Wilfred Hall said it was a matter for gratification that, tho Government had sought to straighten out the condition it had itself created. Upon the last occasion of that sort the Government responsible for the tangle went out of office leaving its successors to face tho music. This (the Atkinson") Government tried to olean things tip, but got no credit for its efforts, and just as things were being got on to a satisfactory basis it Went out of office. The motion was carried,