IS IT A FAKE?

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 152, 27 June 1914, Page 5

IS IT A FAKE?

j MR. POWELL ON THE SCRPLC--. (By Telesratib. —Parliamentary r.eporter.) WELLINGTON. Friday. Is tin- Reform surp'us of tl 126,000 ; faked: Mr. G. W. Kussc'il contended jin the House to-night that the Govern- ! trsent had actually done what it accused its predecessors of doing. To support I this, he asked how it was that the expenditure for the last March quarter I was C 191.000, whereas the sum for the , corresponding quarter of 1013 was £280,000. when the Government paid to the Greymouth Harbour Hoard £6.315 j in royalties, wberea- this year the quarI terry payment was only U.V"i2. The | YVcstport Harbour Roar.l received but i C 1.0113 in place of in last year's i linal quarter. How- came it that, -although the country heard so mm h about enormous increases in l-ailwaymcn's j wages, the la-t quarter's expenditure I was .t:S80.0<li). as a<rains; iOIo.OIIO last 'year. The amounts, of the Defence De- | partnient also showed a s-hrinkage on i:i t ! quarter of exactly C5U.000. ;y)J the '.Prime .Minister, in spile <f putting on more surveyors, had been evonotniril 'enough to save E7,000 in the Lauds DcI The Rrinie Minister: Good nianageI ment. j Mr. RusseH: A great deal of skill. i which is reflected in a -tiiplus of ! C 420,000. I Tiie -Minister of Finance I Tlon. .lame■Allen) replied that it was always dangerously misleading to take a quarter's I fijrures" instead of tbose for the year. iT'ne total expenditnr" fer I'lld-U was I CISO.OOO more than thai in the previous I-rear. The lUbiliiies wore -'.own to b- | .C25.J.000 lc.-s than at Hie close of the ! previous year, and included C 50.000 v.'ai.h was held over in connection with I '.he naval subsidy at the Admiralty's re- | quest, because it- payment would inter- : t'cre with their finance.