STATE ASSISTANCE.
With the 'advent of a new Government there is inevitably a rush for State assistance for a multitude of causes. Ministers new to office and anxious to show their zeal and enterprise are fair game for the •favour-seekers. The experience of the Ward Government has proved no exception to this rule, for its members have been besieged with
deputations and requests of one kind and another. It was a timely hint, therefore, that Sir Joseph Ward dropped to a Gisborne deputation who a day or two ago asked for a reduction in the price of fertilisers. “You must not expect' the Government to do everything,” he said; and he advised them to bestir themselves and look to business competition and' not State aid for betterment in prices. There is much to commend this view. We do not want a fresh era of spoon-feeding by the 'State at the expense of th e general body of taxpayers.
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Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17570, 8 March 1929, Page 4
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