While we commend the loyalty of our Agent-General to the colony he represents, yet we think he went a little too far wheii he said, as we are advised in a London cablegram, "that the efforts of the Government and the people of New Zealand to live within their means, are most heroic." As far as the people are concerned we agree with Mr Perceval, but where the " heroism comes in " of a Government which pays such extravagant wages to members of the House as £240 for three months work— and work badly done — we utterly fail to see, and fancy that it will take a lofc of persuasion to make the editor of the Investor's Review withdraw his assertions even if, to the mind's eye of Mr Percival, they do " exhibit a stupendous capacity for misrepresentation.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 51, 15 October 1892, Page 2
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