REFORM AND LOAN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 44, 20 February 1913, Page 5

REFORM AND LOAN.

(To the Editor “Stratford Post.”) Sir, —I notice Mr Alien is the new “Wizard of Finance.” He has got a loan at 4 per cent at 98. I am not very good at finance, but I remember the late Government floating a 3.J cent, loan at 98, and they were abus-j ed by every member of the Reform Party, from the Premier upwards, and it was suggested that some of the Ministers of that day had a cut out of it. What is this 27s bonus for? Who gets it? Are the expenses of the underwriters to be added to it ? A friend of mine, great at figures, | says it%ill cost at least per cent. | the first year (great is the new wiz-: ard), and again I say that what was i a cardinal sin in the Liberal Government is a magnificent virtue in Mas/7*sey,s Reformers. How will they play that loan up to the “cockatoos” just prior to the next election ? I see by ‘your paper, Mr Fisher is off to Australia. Let us see how many Ministers have been there. Did Mr Frasen go? and Mr Allen, and now Mr Fisher. ] We will stop this travelling about and wasting the taxpayers’ money. Great

is the manna of Reform banquets, travelling expenses, gold letters on F.'M. B. Fisher’s travelling trunks, vague promises, and, above all, their great trump card “commitments.” it is a Jong word, and most of the fanners will think it is a new crime added to the criminal code or a new disease for milking cows, and that the late Government imported it and turned it loose on the country; and our great Reform Party encourage them to think so. Bah I Great is the Reform Party ; or as the Maori said: By golly, Bill Massey; play the great game at j “bluff.”—l am, etc., j LIBERAL. |