ECONOMY IN RETROSPECT
“May I quote a saying,” said Mr. Maitland, M.P., in the House of Commons, ‘of Sir William Harcourt in 1895: ‘lt is idle to preach homilies on the subject of expenditure. No one will listen to them. There is a universal demand for more and more expenditure every year for every conceivable object, all of them excellent objects, but all of them pursued without any regard to their cost. Economy has become a lost art at the close of the century. Now we have made up our minds to spend this unexampled num.’ The unexampled sum was £95.981,000, and now wc are spending eight times that sum.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 178, 30 July 1932, Page 13 (Supplement)
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