WAR SCARE COSTS

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 301, 6 December 1922, Page 9

WAR SCARE COSTS

When the -(Lloyd George) -.Gorenfa ment has been ar-ked by tho. I/above , Party for money i'or the unemployed or for housing they have invariably answered w-th & ,plea of p over. t^. But they would appear to have baft no undue difficulty in finding- money ■to pay -for .'preparations I'or eventual* (ties in the -Near ;East. Then , agents have been -chartering ships at extravagant rates .and storey munitions, hospital eqiiipnien.t, troops and ships have Ijoeav-liu-reied to Malta and the Dardanelles. Altogether the cost cannot faH short of £60,000;0.00. No' mention. cS "economj*" whero warlike prepara*" tions aye concerned! — : The "Ijatbw Press Service." • ' - ',