MONEY FOR SOLDIERS
MR. HOLLAND'S PROTEST "It is a political crime of the greatest'magnitude that the best that the country can give the boys who have gone to fight and die for it is Is a day if they want to go on leave," said Mr. S. G. Holland, Leader of the Opposition, in an address to National Party members in Christcluirch North. That sum was all that was allowed to be sent to soldiers from New Zealand, yet Australian soldiers were allowed £6 a week from home. That was the result of five years of "scientific control" of the banking system. None of the present members of the Cabinet knew what it was like to go to a war and to have a week on leave. • We have to starve the soldiers to preserve the remaining London funds," Mr. Holland said. "We are trying to build up London funds by keeping the soldiers short of the things they are entitled t<>, to enjoy the fullness of life."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23850, 28 December 1940, Page 8
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