Mr Scobie McKenzie and the Government .

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 131, 25 April 1893, Page 2

Mr Scobie McKenzie and the Government .

1 (PKB PBKSI ASSOCIATION.) . > Dunsdiv, April 22. i At Naseby Mr Soobie Mackenzie . made , a scathing attack on the Ministerial , i policy, which, he said, was ft downright" > imposture from beginning to ;eiid,4br theil , most part practised on the - workiagri . classes, and therefore the most odioua. ■ kind of imposture. MiniatariJaad aftently > abandoned the busting.-np ;policjj >«jQ(jl'f i talked of their policy^ one o| purchase , for settlements The LeßwhitiTe Council 1 order to get eight of their special frienan into the Council, Ministers, 'had pwl- ; with them a. sprinkling of so-oa^wLpb*''* . our representatives. They. were ff MWfclf , to put in real Labour repreeentatiTttpand/, : chose perfectly colourless .men' wAo/h#dg , never lifted hand or voice for their fjd|Q^K* a , men in their byes. • The whole business., , was one of the moat flagrant acantafe ever perpetrated „m the colony.., 'The, Cheviot purchase called for' the sthctest { enquiry, dy Parliament, .as !a etaggerui£ 1 price had been given, for the €»t«e;; The Ministerial statements about tne-prp* * gress of settlement and the reduction oP the public debt were similar impostures,! aud nad the latter been made by thedft--ectors of a Melbourne banking company : he would not like to say where they would be now. The whole fabno wfi« built on a foundation of imposture, and the superetructive was cant. He gaye the Government credit, for keeping a tighter hand over the pursathanbad been expected. The colony was slowly recover* ing by a steady rise of its productions over the expenditure. The speaker re* ceived an enthusiastic vote of confidence.