WAR DEBTS.
DOMINION’S OFFER TO PAY. NOT ACCEPTED BY BRITAIN. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Dec. 23. According to a statement made tonight by the Minister of Finance, Hon. W. Downio Stewart, the British Government has ' not accepted the offer of thb New Zealand Government to renew this year its war debt payments to the United Kingdom. Mr Stewart’s statement is as follows: “With reference to the offer of the Government of New Zealand to the Government of tho United Kingdom to renew payment of its obligations under the war debts agreement with the United Kingdom, the New Zealand Government has received a reply from Great Britain expressing warm appreciation of the generous feeling which prompted New Zealand’s offer.
“After explaining the effect of the Lausanne Agreement on the general position the British Government states tliat it does not wish to withdraw or qualify its offer of suspension made to New Zealand and other Dominions at the time of the Lausanne Agreement.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 24, 24 December 1932, Page 6
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161WAR DEBTS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 24, 24 December 1932, Page 6
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