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Southland Times, Issue 21848, 27 October 1932, Page 5

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EXPENDITURE COMMISSION’S REPORT. MR McDOUGALL’S DISMISSAL. (From Our Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, October 26. The report of the National Expenditure Commission was dismissed by Mr D. McDougall in the House of Representatives to-night in an almost contemptuous manner, the Member for Mataura remarking that it did not matter whether the report was right or wrong because no one would take any notice of it. “We have heard from the benches on the other side of the House that the report is a condemnation of the Government,” Mr McDougall said. “Then the Leader of the Opposition got up and said that it was a sloppy and misleading document and he is not alone in that because the chairman of the Press Sir Cecil Leys, confirms hWremarks. If it is a condemnation of the Government how is it that these two able men have described it as a sloppy document. If they are correct, and I am inclined to think that they are, how does it condemn the Government? However, it does not matter whether it condemns the Government or not because no one will take any notice of it.”