MR EDIE’S BLUNDER.
A CHARGE AND A REPLY. (Feom Due Own Our.RE3roNDENT.) WELLINGTON, October 31. Liberal members are often very reckless in the charges they make against the Reform Government. During tho debate on the Public Works Statement this afternoon Mr Edie (tho member for Clutha) found himself suddenly out of his depth. Sir George Hunter (the Reform member for Waipawa) had briefly urged a. more rapid progression with the Napier-Gisborne railway. Mr Edie later quoted items from the Estimates which, ho said, showed that Sir George Hunter, as a Government supporter, had been unduly favoured in regard to Government grants, which he proceeded to particularise. Unfortunately for Mr Edie he blundered in his quotations, for Sir George Hunter was able to reply that several of the votes mentioned by tho member for Clutha were in tho electorate of-the Liberal member for Hawke's Bay (Mr G. M‘Kay). Mr Edie made no reply to this revelation.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19317, 1 November 1924, Page 17
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155MR EDIE’S BLUNDER. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19317, 1 November 1924, Page 17
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