SOCIAL SERVICES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20918, 7 January 1930, Page 7

SOCIAL SERVICES

EXPENDITURE IN BRITAIN. STATEMENT BY MR LANSBURY. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) LONDON, January 6. (Received Jan. C, at 9 p.tn.) “ The most mad-hatter scheme ever evolved,” is how Mr George Lansbury (First Commissioner of Works) described the Empire economic policies of Lord Beayerbrook and Lord Rothermeve, when speaking at the East End. He said they both worried about public expenditure, and the Government’s greatest crime, according to Lord Rothermere, was increased expenditure on social services. “He objects to the raising of the school age and unemployment payments, but British history proves that expenditure on social services is the best insurance against revolution. Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere desire to develop the dominions, forgetting that dominions like Australia and Canada desire to develop their own secondary industries instead of buying British manufactures and sending food in return.”

LORD ROTHERMERE’S OPINION.

EXTRAVAGANT EXPENDITURE,

LONDON, January 5. (Received Jan. 6, at 10 p.m.)

Lord Rothermere’s newspapers will tomorrow inaugurate an economic policy for the restoration of prosperity, based on high protection for British manufacturers and workers, but no food taxes, substituting therefore subsidies for the benefit of farmers and farm workers. Lord Rothermere holds that the subsidies are easily payable by a reduction of what he considers extravagant expenditure on social services.