DOING HIS BEST.
Dr. Newman does not lay claim to oratory, and he very often has consider-' able difficulty in making himself heard ; all over the House. Yesterday he wa« ' discussing the Estimates of the Post and Telegraph Department, ■ and he expressed a regret that tho Department had not supplied a balance-sheet. Ho doubted very much whether the Department was in a healthy financial condition. He doubled whether it was even doing as well as the Railway Department. Was it paying interest on the millions .of money that' had been borrowed for its development? The Postmaster-General:' "I-~csnnofc hear what the honourable gentleman—is i saying. I know he is saying something that is not, very nice, but 1 don't know what it is."
Dr. Newman : "I am doing my very best and I am doing the best I .can for you. It's not nice, and I can't make it nice." ' .
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 67, 16 September 1922, Page 7
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149DOING HIS BEST. Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 67, 16 September 1922, Page 7
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