VIEWS OF THE BUDGET
PROM DIFFERENT SIDES. fSir-citi. to Tire Star,] IJHRI fTIXTHUROH, July 2A The ‘ Lyttelton Times’ says, in ref-rme' to the Budget; " .-Is fir as wo car judg tbo Premier Iras presented a jerfertjy honest statement of the financial position of the colony. <wvd if trie Budget, duos in places bear somewhat the appearance of ■■•n appeal to trie constiteancies, k should b ossv to make allowance for time and rcrnirateßces. After it has been disc-rare-i in the House, the electors should be ahT, at any rate, to go to the polls with a ;n.:rf* oomprehensVe view of their own affairs. TV- • Press ’ declares that the frcancvi' proposals in tie Budget can be put in, - sentence. Mr Seddon profvws to extra c< from the taxpayers of the colony a million ami a-quarter Eteriing more than, be quires for legitimate purposes, and means to uw> that amount as an ettocticmecrm fund, dazzling tbo constituencies by tbprofnsmras of his expenditure, and hidri : from them as far as possible the fact tha* it is their own money which is being flunz about.
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Evening Star, Issue 12566, 26 July 1905, Page 6
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181VIEWS OF THE BUDGET Evening Star, Issue 12566, 26 July 1905, Page 6
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