PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
DILATORY PUBLICATION. PLEA FOR PROMPTNESS. ('Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The Dominion this morning, in its happiest vein, suggests to the Government that it should abandon the dilatory methods of the past and render its accounts more promptly. “On the first day of the New Year,” it tells its readers, “the British public was informed by the Government of receipts and expenditure for the previous nine months. ... In the Dominion the Budget is delayed four or five months, and the actual details, as set out in the annual taxing Bills, generally appear six or seven months after tho opening of the financial year to which they apply.” There would be advantages, 'as the morning paper says, in having the public accounts, showing receipts and expenditure on New Year’s day, but, as the sessions of Parliament both here and in the Mother Country, are mainly regulated by the seasons, it would.be necessary to so readjust the two magnetic poles that their respective hemispheres would be brought into harmony in this respect with one another.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17913, 8 January 1930, Page 8
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175PUBLIC ACCOUNTS Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17913, 8 January 1930, Page 8
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