HOW PUBLIC MONEY IS WASTED.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PMSB ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Friday. It is stated that a large quantity of electric lighting plant, valued at about £1500, now in etore, has been condemned as useless.
Our Wellington correspondent) writes:— "The plant was imported by the late Government, and was intended to be used for lighting the underground magazines at the forts. It now appears that in no other country would such a lighting-up of t?he recesses of fortifications be allowed, unless, indeed, it were intended that the fort should be blown up, or that its defenders should be marks for the guns of the enemy. I also learn, upon authority, that a large quantity of other defence material, ordered and in stock, has been condemned as unnecessary, and that the Defence Minister has cabled home to stop the shipment of » quantity of surplus material ordered by the late Government, which is now pronounced to be useless for the purposes of defence. Suppose the war scare of 1885 had developed into active hostilities, what would have been the consequences of this extravagant expenditure ' ior useless' material of war ?"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9022, 7 April 1888, Page 5
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