The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, SEPT. 20, 1890. False Economy
♦ - ■. Those shoddy economists in the House who will go down to posterity knowD and designated as the " Skinflints," have done much evil where they pretended they were working good. After all their objections, amendments, and cuttings down of expenditure in salaries, a deficiency of about £50,000- at the end of the current year is an ' absolute certainty. When the Acting Premier made this statement, whioh is unhappily top accurate to be doubted, he concluded by saying : — "He agreed with the leader of the Opposition in expressing a wish that the elections would result in the re- > turn of a Government capable of conducting the business of the country is an efficient manner. He predicted that members on that side of the House would be returned by. a large majority." The time has not yet come for us to make any comments on that prediction ;" but this we may say : the electors will not be affected by it, either one way or the other, one hair's breadth, because public opinion is that neither the Opposition nor the members of the Ministerial party, with a few honorable exceptions, can claim that they ■". deserve well of their country."
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 41, 20 September 1890, Page 2
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