TWO KINDS OF BONDS
When the Prime Minister reads the London newspapers’ eulogies of New Zealand’s offer to pay its instalment of the funded debt to the British Government, he must feel a glow of satisfaction. The enthusiastic reception of his offer cannot fail to move him, and he would not be human if he did not feel proud of the declaration that New Zealand has made an honourable gesture and that there is no war debtor more deserving of relief and none readier to make every sacrifice rather than dishonour its bond. Mr Forbes, reading this commendation in the Morning Post, could be pardoned for some inward pleasure, and he and his colleagues of the Government could be pardoned, too, if this praise led their minds to consider the attitude of the Government to the bond it gave its own employees under the Superannuation Fund contract, and to wonder how bonds may vary and, well ... to wonder what the Morning Post would say about the proposal to vary the conditions governing the superannuation to which public servants became contributors by compulsion.
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Southland Times, Issue 21895, 22 December 1932, Page 4
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182TWO KINDS OF BONDS Southland Times, Issue 21895, 22 December 1932, Page 4
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