SCANDALOUS WASTE.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1511, 10 March 1920, Page 5

SCANDALOUS WASTE.

M.P. FORCES REVELATIONS. [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Tuesday, 5.5 p.m.) LO|NDON, March 4. The **•* Daily Mail ” has started a Postcard Economy Campaign, by which thousands of housewives’ postcards demanding a reduction in the cost of living, are daily delivered to members of the House of Commons. The paper claims that the first result is apparent in a debate in the House of Commons on the cost of British representation at the Peace Council at Paris. Mr J. G. Wedgwood estimated it at £2,000,000. Sir Alfred Mond admitted that the hotel bills were £200,000 for accommodation only. Heckled about typists, dresses, dances, bands and champagne, Sir Alfred Mond disclaimed responsibility, and said that the Food Ministry had supplied the champagne. The British Government’s new loan at 3J per cent, is only one-third subscribed. The “ Daily Mail ” attributes the failure partly to the public determination to force the Government to stop waste, and the fears of a capital levy. A. White Paper, publishing financial correspondence, reveals that the Governors of the Bank of England urged the Government to restrict future borrowings from the bank.