TWO HUNDRED MILLIONS.
ENGLAND'S ANNUAL BILL. UOSD GEORGE, PRODIGAL. LONDON. December 14. iOTd Lansdowne. during tbe course of > speech last night, said that the only legislation which had any chance of success Teas that introduced for the purpose of "-ecoring votes. This led to extravagance, which would soon make the normal espenditure £200.000,000. A little care, continued Lord Lans--kirae, would make the proposed Irish pensions less comprehensive and less costly. When the national insurance proposals were dangled before the country ir **s promised that it would not cost "the country a farthing. Nerct year it would cost f7,000,000. and another 1} millions would have to be spent to secure the doctor's co-operation. The Chancellor of tiie Exchequer was usually the financial conscience of the Cabinet, but he had now become the prodisal son of the family.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 300, 16 December 1912, Page 5
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