Condemned the Measure
in strong terms as being the most dishonest, as well as the most impracticable, piece of class legislation which the Government had yet attempted. He characterised the Bill as a direct incentive to financial recklessness and dishonesty, and it would ultimately have the effect of bursting-np and bringing financial ruin on the county councils all over the country. It encouraged the councils to borrow : proposed, in fact, to put power into the hands of men who had themselves no stake in the district to compel the councils to borrow. The measure hadn't a single sup ' porter of any weight during the debate ; and after the committee are done with it, it will take Mr Cadman all his time to recognise it.
There were persistent rumours in the lobbies yesterday that Mr Ballance was preparing for a voyage to England to take up the
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1818, 5 August 1891, Page 3
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