Parliamentary Notes.
[From our Special Reporter. J Wellington, This day. In the Financial Statement, which is to be delivered to-morrow night, indication will be given of the need of extending the operation of the Lands for Settlement Bill, which expires in March, 1899. The probibiiities are that a quarter of a million sterling will be asked for acquiring estates for settlement purposes. Later. The latest report in the lobbies is that the Government will only ask authority to raise a loan of something like a quarter of a million, nearly the whole of which will be devoted to railway purposes, including the replenishing of rolling stock and repairs to the permanent way occasioned by the Hawke's Bay floods a few months ago. The Government are said to have completed a satisfactory solution of the old age pension scheme. The probabilities are that the extra taxation entailed by this measure will be a burden on landed property.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 447, 11 October 1897, Page 2
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