SAVING NATION’S MONEY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 804, 26 October 1929, Page 32

SAVING NATION’S MONEY

KEMAL PASHA WILL NOT VISIT CONSTANTINOPLE WELCOME TOO EXPENSIVE The hard-earned piastres of hardup Constantinpole citizenry will be splurged upon no triumphal arches to welcome Ghazi Mustapha Kemal this year. The Ghazi cancelled his annual summer visit to the city of the Golden Horn, and will remain through out the summer in the hot and dusty capital of Angora. No reasons were given officially for this change in the President’s usual programme, but unofficially there are two explanations. One is that the Ghazi cannot reform his citizens out of their expensive custom of staging huge demonstrations of welcome whenever he leaves Angora. Constantinople has been in the habit of spending hundreds of thousands of liras every summer to string the Bosphorus with electric lights, erect dozens of triumphal arches and indulge in other extravagant falderals to adorn herself for the great man’s coming.

Now, with hard times pinching the people after three successive years of drought and crop failures, the Ghazi, it is reported, wishes no extravagant receptions staged for him, and the only way he can prevent these demonstrations is to stay at home.