SIR JOSEPH WARD
REPLY TO CRITICISM
WELLINGTON, This Day.
Sir Joseph Ward, in a statement today, said that he was greatly amused to read of the frantic efforts of the Reform Party and its press to bring discredit upon his loan proposals. Apart from the varied contradictory charges levelled against the scheme, the. public may be aware that the criticism, coming from men who had made such a hopeless mess of the country's finances in the last few'years, was of little worth. With regard to »the Hon. Downie Stewart, what value had been received for the £30,000,000 he had added to the public debt in the last three years? Undoubtedly the result of his work would disappear in muddlement and wastage, and the extravagant system of raising Joans would vanish, not in one night but one day, the 14th November., Sir Joseph recalled that when ho initiated advances to settlers and workers, there was the same cry of extravagant borrowing, and "it can't be done," was raised by the party of Mr Stewart.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 26 October 1928, Page 2
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