THE PEOPLE’S PRIVILEGE
TO GRUMBLE AT GOVERNMENT. New Zealanders love to grumble at their Government, and very often the grumbling is unfair and irrational, but we should be sorry if there were wanting this or any other stimulus to our governors. But it is right that our people should sometimes consider how much cause they have to be grateful for their good fortune and for their enjoyment of a Government which, whatever its imperfections, compares more than favourably, in the most important particulars, with the Governments of other States. They often forget, also, that the present sound condition of -the national finances could not be recorded if the Government had not applied itself earnestly and successfully to a policy of economy which made it possible to keep a sound revenue position even after making substantial remission in taxation. It may be said, of course (remarks the Christchurch Press), that the country’s prosperity merely reflects favourable economic conditions, but that would be to do injustice to the Government.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1638, 7 May 1925, Page 8
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167THE PEOPLE’S PRIVILEGE Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1638, 7 May 1925, Page 8
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