SOCIAL CREDIT
AN ERRONEOUS MESSAGE By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON. September 18. The Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes stated to-day that he had had his attention drawn to press telegrams from overseas indicating that Alberta and New Zealand were engaged in a race as to which should be the first to put into application the theories of the Douglas Credit System. This statement, of course, >yas entirely contrary to fact, he said. These theories were supported by a very small number in New Zealand. The people in this country were much too sensible to be carried away by such theories which were repudiated by all economists of repute throughout the world. [This message refers to a cable from New York published this week:— “The Dean of Canterbury, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, who arrived to-day, said that the Social Credit movement was beginning a tremendous religious war against poverty, with Canada and New Zealand running a close race to be the first to adopt the programme. Other countries would tumble over each other to join in when they saw it a success. If it was a failure iVi Alberta it would be only a set-back in a world-wide programme which should interest churches, because it promised to curb nationalism, which was the fomentation of war. The Dean plans a seven weeks’ tour nf CariariQ ”1
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20217, 19 September 1935, Page 10
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224SOCIAL CREDIT Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20217, 19 September 1935, Page 10
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