BRITAIN’S PROBLEMS
A TERRIFIC HANDICAP (For Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Interviewed on his return to-day, the Hon. W. H. Triggs emphasised the tremendous handicap Britain is struggling with in the load of debt she faces as a result of tho war and debt settlements. Instead of being first as an exporter she is now third, America and Germanybeing ahead of her. He was impressed with" tho advantages enjoyed by France and Germany in regard to loans through the depreciation of tho franc and' the mark, but in the conclusion of his interview lie said his desire was not to disparage these countries, nor criticise tho MacDonald 'Government, 'but to impress on New Zealanders with all the earnestness in his power that the Mother Country was laboring under great, burdens, mid that to meet- the terrific competition with which she is faced she needs moro than ever the sympathy ami active support of every loyal member of, the
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17126, 5 December 1929, Page 6
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