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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2568, 31 July 1909, Page 4

Referring to l>r. Findlay’s recent speech the Christchurch ” ‘‘Evening Nows” lias some good comment upon the suggestion that the State; as a “beneficent parent/’ can do better than private enterprise. As to the “beneficent parent,” says the “News,” “that loan-besotted personage has put up a record of waste, extravagance, and general incompetence that has no parallel in colonial politics, and has conducted his business on the lines that would have bankrupted any undertaking controlled by private enterprise half a dozen times over. The State has squandered its capital ; pawned alii it® assets beyond redemption; incurred appalling liabilities; it has become responsible tor feeding and maintaining one-seventh of the population; it admits it has been wasting £250,000 a year on its superfluous officials, the deficits or. its transport services and other enterprises arc made tip out of the pockets of the people; the general tax- > ation has reached tho unprecedented stim of £5 per head, and over three millions of borrowed money is required annually to ‘keep the crazv show going.” I Mr. George Davies, “suit specialist,” Dunlop’s Buildings, has a notification i the advertising columns of this issue. , A notification regarding bargains to ho obtained at the Noah’s Ark furniture shop appeal's in this issue. .