NEW ZEALAND'S PROBLEM.
{. Qoinindntiiig*up(i«>fhe> -future of the public works piilicy-of New Zealand, the *■Au3tralasiaii".6ii j j : s ;~A : "great difficulty winch the 'New Zealand; Government has • "•;■■' jo encoiintPi'isociiasioriod by the fact that > the loan of £ S.OOOjOOO, which has lately ton so successfully Boated,.' was antici- ■> pated, or rather actually expended, to the 'TZH& * 3 ' oo °W. *> time only tl.l reiiiains really available. The •': c .lpiiy has entered'into au understanding ■not to resort iojhe.inpi%iiiai-ket for more loan, for three years; '"The Minister then - hwis himself withffsunv'under two rail- ". lions, and-witlra; very large number of railways in an' iu'comple'te i!t£te, but far . froin the stage at. which they' Win to pay even a nartof;thejnterest on their cost! v Bis choice -Hie but.what }e ,tol!y...determined on . for the work of the current year was to • ' .carry on progress works .on no less than ■ .twenty.fiveliues. As we understand the Minister, it will not be possible with pre- ■ sent means to complete any of this large number of railmiys, and all" that will be ■*i dmie by the year's will be to carry 4 then, on somewhere nearer to completion' .• lhediffioult les and perils of such a posi- • ; urn as this are too obvious for criticism. * We presume no New Zealand,politician'" ~v would profess to believe,that-to have five- " - and tweiity incomplete railways bu hand i at once is ajrjutnph of good management. "' 1 ine clamorous demands oflcical districts, ! the logrolling 0 f members, the- flabby weakness of. average politicians, who find ' itsomuchcasiertosayyesthapno'wl'en "J nothiivgsflfftvs' feiive'tho interests : of the .country-all have/ to Je;/copsidered as - grounds of extenuation for the manage-- • ' I went which has.brought about mSJKRM posjtinn.'We can readily desire of the Minister to 'appoint ■Gomraissiouto investigate the at any rate to somewhat divide an unpleasant responsibility* '•
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 385, 10 February 1880, Page 2
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291NEW ZEALAND'S PROBLEM. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 385, 10 February 1880, Page 2
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