OUR LIBERAL GOVERNMENT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 439, 23 February 1909, Page 9

OUR LIBERAL GOVERNMENT.

; >*&~ 1 :one A >he .-.few:, men -/who' iii«he:' cightips.;-.bronght!.'6ut tepensV the first, purely .Labor* .candidate eveirirmr- . m -Ne* Zealand, I feel-that; I, am-jnstly: ™. titled to -mention .a. few; /of ■: tho many libT .our;liberai;and;Labour^min-: ■wwawon-; : .J- ; professto give^the:: cor-' b.ut- : : I, will; endeavour to'teei^ as allowy e |, and hope =that Sir.Joseph; -Ward-ivill correct' mo.where I am \vrong,, and: publish -m real' amounts m The Dominion/ > ; :,:p : i;:. ■■; ■■* ■ -The ;Seddon:6byernment, : ;to : be2in with' .to:UheiSv:S Bpeiit a cool haif milhon .taking -way, the independence' from-a few' Transvaal.' ' b!L™Sr was to/raise ■lf f'w'es,'of.; all the : .higher officials'■ by afeut.4o; W r.;ccnt;.Thi S hvh S :doh<s.owing-toV tte. ancreased cost,of/living.; Then' W6 .cbmev to.the RoyaWisiVanother £200,000.; In ccsi--iiection. with; this .visit,",: spent' to repair a road over which his 'Royal' Hikh.ness to :malce. ; one:;4ip: ;|;o ,: .didn t:: con^; by ;,that;:rodd r : but : it : ;goo^mtent.on S:/l ll;.tho^ame.-AEm? S .■we.finda-.sum-/of £1700 a year voted «v' /X'!'' (^S, a carried; H$- B - * ar 4- ;TJ !f? ■•'!?<"* Stw '^^'P l^ Public Works about'£2o.ooo wbrth,;of materia .from • Pipiriki to Ohatune ; This material.evxmtually cost £15 ;per -tori to cart;: Tta:comM a/litte; item, Seddon .who/ it,«, already provided ;for.;;:Vcry ne arlyvlast' Sf wL° ■■ e ? terta,a .-i'tho. Parliament, oni'leet week, and. several :.sums J r of'£25 voted as. ; ifidows and families'of., workers who lost their' ■ i ,n,the:Publ.c j Se'rvic e ;;--r:h a ven't tS .■as.-ffiej f very small ; ffac«on of,-theVbenevo erit-■ aotsof our-Liberal, and Labour-Government to;their intimate am,'etc