Fiddling Finance.
By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Sydney, Dec. 11. In the Assembly, the Treasurer carried a Bill relieving him from payment of this year’s annual instalment of £2j0,000 from the Consolidated Revenue towards wmine out the accumulated deficit, and fixin<*next year’s instalment at £IOO,OOO. Mr Waddell explained that the Federal tariff changes and extra charges which had arisen in connection with the plague, Royal visit, and Commonwealth celebrations, rendered it impossible to meet these instalments. The Opposition strongly attacked the Government for going hack on their obligations, and for extravagance. The Treasurer tabled loan estimates totalling £2,997,000, railway and tramway services accounting for more than half.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 290, 14 December 1901, Page 1
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