"LYING ON THE STATE."
DEPENDENTS IN NEW ZEALAND.
EABL GRBY OUTSPOKEN.
Press Association,
■ WELLINGTON, March 10. Earl Grey attended a lunehebii give* in tho.:.Town,Hall to-day in his>onow by the New Zealand Club arid the Wellington branch of the Royal Colonial Institute.
Earl Grey,- in the course of hia speech, said there was one fact in the national life of New Zealand which he had only just discovered, and which had caused jh'uA to experience a positive shiver of apprehension. This was the fact that one-eighth of the population was directly : dependent upon the SJatc. The people in the United Kingdom were in the proportion of oneiwelftk. His lordship referred to the danger of encouraging people to lie «°wn upon the State, and maintained that it was one of the most dangerous positions New Zealand could possibly be in, and where the people were' found lying down upon the State, we would find an influence that would bo seriously detrimental., .to national vitality.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 28, 10 March 1914, Page 10
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