THAT SURPLUS
HOUSES FOR SOLDIERS WILL. ENDEAVOUR TO REDUCE TAXATION. PRIME MINISTER’S STATEMENT. “Our finances were newer in a more satisfactory position than at present,’’ said Mir Massey, amidst applause at the winter show on Saturday niglit. When there was no surplus he wae slanged about it, and now there was a surplus they said he was taking it out of their pockets. He did not try to please eweryone. He did what he believed to be right, and took the consequences. The eum about which so many inquiries had been made was used to build’ soldiers’ houses. (Hear, hear.) The surplus Was 1J millions, and it might he a little more. If the House was in a good humour he would endeavour to reduce the taxation of the country by an amount—perhaps not equal to 1} millions, but getting on towards it. He was not afraid of the country. He had every confidence in it and! m the people.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11874, 7 July 1924, Page 6
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