The Public Revenue Act
No amount of special pleading or precedent (says the Post) will alter the plain meaning of the word 'forthwith ' or convince anyone that an Act of Parliament requiring the publication of certain information forthwith is complied with by publication three months after the time fixed. The suppression of the Public Accounts for a couple of months is contrary to law* That the law has been broken before does not render legal a fresh breach of it. The Ministerial organ seems to think that our objection is something quite new. Its memory is short. We raised the same objection on the same grounds two years ago, on the first occasion after the passing of the Public Revenue Act, 1891, requiring the* gazetting of the accounts forthwith after audit. It is no breach of confidence to say that our attention was directed to the provisions of the law; by the late Mr Macarthur, in the very last conversation we had with . that gentleman prior to his sudden and lamented decease. Mr Macarthur was one of the soundest financial authorities the House of Representatives has known, and had he been spared to occupy a seat in 1892, it was his intention to have brought the matter under the notice of the House.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 320, 22 May 1894, Page 2
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213The Public Revenue Act Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 320, 22 May 1894, Page 2
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