FEAT OF MEMORY

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3849, 4 October 1932, Page 6

FEAT OF MEMORY

MR, STEVENS’S BUDGET FINANCES IN N.S.W. Aust and N ft. tainm. Sydney, Sept. 23. Converting a deneit of £14,227,000 into one or £4,350.000 was not the only amazing feat, Premcir Stevens, accomplished with hi® BudgetIn, presenting iu to Parliament, ho succeeded in virtually eeiumitting to; memory a- twc-liours’ speech, biistiiny with big figures. With only occasional rel-cremce to the printed sheet® in itduc of linn, !i,■ was so letter perfect that the Hansard reporter® were required to make only very few alterations in tlie copies of the speech fr-Jm which they fallowed its delivery. No Treasurer ever bad a. more complete grip of hi® budget than, did Mi- Stevens. Ip wa s the quietest Budget in recent me.mllj-y, . Olio or two question® were asked by Opposition inember®. but, aside from these, the only interruptions to the even flow of speech were the “Hoar, hears” of tlie Government supporters The Leader of fbo Opposition, Mr Lang, sat immobile, with folded arms, hrouglujut the, whole of the speech, his face a mask. His voice, vya® hoard om'y once—when, lie asked for, and received, the adjournment of ihe debate -until Tuesday week. *"■ - ’ -