MR SCULLIN REPLIES TO MR E. J. HOLLOWAY.
ECONOMIES NECESSARY, HOWEVER DISTASTEFUL. CANBERRA, June 16. The Prime Minister, Mr J. 11. Scul!in, has written to the fcimer Minister, Mr E. J. Holloway, saying: ‘‘The economies to which you object are quite as distasteful to every other member of Parliament, but we have to recognise that they are unavoidable. Treasury figures disclose that unless we take steps to meet the position, the Commonwealth will not be able to pay twelve shillings in the pound, therefore it is a question of arithmetic, not of argument, since default will mean that the pensioners and public servants for whom you so much sympathise will receive nothing at all. We cannot escape the grim fact that the reductions are inevitable.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 142, 17 June 1931, Page 1
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