“MAY BE FOR YEARS”
THOSE VOTES ON ESTIMATES MR. WILFORD’S GIBE (THE SUN'S Parliament ary Reporter) WELLINGTON, Monday. “It may be for years and it may be for ever.” These lines of the old Irish song ran through the head* of Mr. T. M. Wilford in the House of Representatives this evening when’ he rose disappointed about the prospective erection of a small post office in a remote corner of his electorate for which a vote had been on the estimates for a number of years. “Is this going to be ‘Kathleen Mavourneen?* There are hundreds of thousands of pounds being put on the estimates every year to placate constituents,” he went on. “It is no good telling my constituents, nor telling me, that a vote is to be placed on the estimates. We know it is .there, but I want it spent. Is this the same old wheeze? The vote is placed on the estimates and constituents are telegraphed and told that everything is right because the vote is on the estimates, but everything is not right. The Government gets through the Public Works estimates because it does not spend the money placed on the estimates, and consequently does not show increased expenditure over the estimates at the end of the year.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 208, 22 November 1927, Page 18
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