WASTE OF PUBLIC MONEY.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]
Wellington', Monday. Last session Major Steward, the Chairman of the Printing and Reporting Debates Committee, brought up a report showing how £1000 could be saved by limiting the number of copies of Parliamentary Papers and Government Gazettes granted to officers and others not really entitled to them, and some slight reform was made in consequence. For instance, one member of the House gets four sots of Parliamentary Papers, Gazettes, &c.—lst, as a member of Parliament; 2nd, as a Justice of the Peace ; 3rd, as a newspaper proprietor; 4th, as holding some other public position. The retrenchment party are grumbling considerably at one instance of waste in this matter. This session the whole of the evidence of the Seacliff Commission, respecting the foundations of a wing of the Seacliff Asylum, comprising nearly '200 pages, with lithographed plans and sketches, has been printed. Thecostof the printing alone is said to be about £200, and when to this is added the expense of the Commission, it would have gone a long way to put in new foundations. Not half-a-dozen people will ever read the paper through.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9102, 10 July 1888, Page 5
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