RURAL ADVANCES
MR. POLSON’S CRITICISM. HON. DOWNIE STEWART REPLIES. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, May 6. A reply is made by the Hon. Downie Stewart to Mr. Polson’s criticism of the Rural Advances Act. *• He says Mr. Polson’s criticism means that as a member of the Rural Advances Board Mr Polson contradicts most of what he said as a member of the Royal Commission on the rural credits. It looks as if Mr Polson is beginning to have doubts as to the scheme which he himself recommended and which he has been asked to help to administer. He did not know why Mr Polson should suggest that the scheme will drift into stagnation when £500,000 had been advanced. If he and the Farmers’ Union help to sell the bonds as farmers’ organisations do in other countries he was hopeful that the bonds would selL
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Southland Times, Issue 20172, 7 May 1927, Page 8
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144RURAL ADVANCES Southland Times, Issue 20172, 7 May 1927, Page 8
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