THE USE OF GOLD
HANDICAP 5o DOMiNibif ABANDONMENT URGED (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. “Personally I see no reason why iwe should not abandon gold for external use as it has been internally. America will then have to take our wool ihstead of our gold,” said Dr. T. W. Weston, farm economist at Lincoln College, when addressing tlie Farmers’ Union executives of the South Island lit a conference to-day. “The abandonment, of gold altogether as a basis of credit would be. a forward move for the farming community,” said Dr. Weston. If England had hot hone off the gold standard, New Zealand would have had to cancel somo of its debts.’’ ' *
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17609, 27 October 1931, Page 8
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112THE USE OF GOLD Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17609, 27 October 1931, Page 8
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