A WONDERFUL POLICY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19435, 22 October 1925, Page 6

A WONDERFUL POLICY

The outstanding feature of the address given last night by Mr. W. A. Veitch, the National Party’s candidate for the Wanganui seat, was his woderful scheme of national finance. As a remedy for all the financial ills from which, according to the Nationalists, the Dominion is suffering Mr. Veitch would develop the tourist trade. He sees no reason why overseas visitors should not every year leave ten millions sterling in New Zealand, which he thinks would be quite sufficient to finance the country. Mr. Veitch, of course, is a modest man with modest ideas. That, no doubt,' is why he has not told us how the ten millions, scattered all over the country from the North Cape to the Bluff, could be raked into the Government’s coffers. The tourists would want something in return for their ten millions—transport, food, clothing, tobacco, perhaps even liquor. After subtracting the cost of these little items how much of Mr. Veitch’s ten millions would be left? If this is the Nationalists’ scheme of finance, no wonder Sir Joseph Ward, who has some reputation as a financier, refuses to associate with the newlynamed party.

There is, we should add, one more source of revenue to be exploited by the Nationalists. They would push on with forestry. But surely the present, Government is fostering both forestry and the tourist traffic with the object of benefiting the country as a whole. The Nationalists are uncommonly adept at “borrowing” the policy of others. We cannot compliment them on their efforts to make the borrowed policy look more attractive.