WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.
To the Editor.
gir,—Would you kindly allow me a small space in your valuable columns to say a few words about the World Economic Conference in the Old Country which is coming off soon. Now sir, I read in the Times yesterday that the Prime Minister (Mr Forbes) and the Hon. R. Masters, also their guard, are just about to embark on a holiday—l mean to say a trip to the Old Country to attend the great conference on behalf of the wee islands called Noo Zealand. Mr Editor, our Government keeps telling us. to economize and so forth through this depression, and with so many unemployed trying to exist on a starvation wage and the small farmers toiling long hours for 5d per lb butter-fat, trying to keep their heads above water, 1 think the Government is giving us a bad lead through this depression when it allows half a dozen to attend the World Conference at the expense of th<» taxpayer. What is wrong with our High Commissioner at Home (Sir Thomas Wilford)? I think he is quite capable in every way, to act on behalf and look after the affairs of New Zealand at the conference without spending another £7OOO or £BOOO to send a delegation Home from here in these hard times, when this money could be spent on other urgent needs here. — I am, etc., i
ONE TRYING TO MAKE ENDS MEET.
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Southland Times, Issue 22013, 12 May 1933, Page 3
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