A CRITICISM OF THE GOVERNMENT.
(Received May ?9, 9.35 a.m.) • \ SYDNEY, May^9. In the Legislative .-.AwewWy- Mr . &c« strongly attacked fhe Government finance. I^e said that at the endAof ApriHast the consolidation revenue' account wa? overdrawn to the extent of €713,000 and the loan account to the extent of 4*3,350,000. The expenditure to which the Gbvernafteßfc was committed for the ten months of the present year amounted to over seyep millions. Mr. See, the Premier, in reply, der fended the finances of the Governnienk Hi announced that a referendum on the redue* tion in the number of (members would be submitted immediately ■«* * «?-?* to the country of £10,000. .
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7415, 29 May 1902, Page 2
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