THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION.
Speaking at Mr Hunter's banquet at Danevirke on Thursday, Captain RusBell dfjc—red that the Government had increased tbe pubb'o debt by over -4,000,000. Dealing with their land policy, he Btrongly favoured freehold tenure and condemned the Fair Rent Bill. New Zealand, he thought, was the most heavily taxed oountry of the British empire. The Opposition was now of sufficient number and _tefligence to -resist the Government borrowing, squander—g, and imposing further taxation,
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9739, 29 May 1897, Page 8
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