THE MILKY WAY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 201, 22 August 1912, Page 9

THE MILKY WAY.

j A CUSTOMS PARABLK. i (By Telegraph.--I'arlliimfmtary T!<?j>orter.) ; YVFLUXGTOX, Wednesday. j In discussing the possibility of the rei venue showing a surplus of over a million I pounds fnr the current year, Mr. Vigor j ltrown, in the House of Representatives ! Inst evening, gave some advice to the i Minister of Customs. "If we are going I io have a surplus of a million, two-thirds of that will probably come by way of the I Customs. Is that not an argument in ' favour of the Minister of Customs taking lan early opportunity to revise the ! tari/T?" he asked. " That million of suri plus money simply means that we are going to extract unnecessary monov out jot the pockets of the people. We'don't 1 want to extract over a million more from. the people than is necessary, therefore, why do itv'' The Hon. Mr. Fisher: Has it not been done for over twenty years? Why are j you criticising us'/ j Mr. Brown: You may have spilt milk. j twenty years ago, when you were a child. But we don't want to spill the milk now. Never mind about twenty years ago, come along to the present. (Laughter.) Mr. Fi.-ihcr: We are not dealing with milk now.

" But what I want to say is that you may have been drinking milk over twenty years ago, Rnd may have spilt some. I don't know whether the member for Wellington Central drinks it now. but he voted for the bare majority the other day, and so he probably puts water in the milk,' , added Mr. lirown, and the laugh went round again.