PARLIAMENT.
END OF BUDGET DEBATE. HON. HALL-JONES ON. RAILWAYS. PRIME:'MINISTER'S REPLY. When the Houso met yesterday,afternoon tho" Prime 'Minister announced tho resignation of tho'Hon. AV. P". '"Reeves. as High-. Commissioner, arid said; lie-would make a statement as to a successor-boforo the end of tho .session:;... .:/ "-- The. greater, portion of-, tho afternoon wa3 taken; ]np with" the ireplies' 'of '-'the • Hon. W. Hall-Jones arid "the/Pririro Minister to the Budget speeches. The latter, who :was in his best debating the debato with' a vigorous speech-of an'; hour's duration. Consideration of-, the'; Estimates .was then , begun.. . The: discussion, on the first, item: ranged over a great variety. of subjects, and tosted throughoutethb evening sitting.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 259, 25 July 1908, Page 7
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111PARLIAMENT. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 259, 25 July 1908, Page 7
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