GOVERNMENT RETRENCHMENT
The Government is practising economy with a vengeance. About a thousand men (says the Christchurch Truth), dismissed or about to be dismissed is a drastic method of putting on the brake, which contrasts curiously with the recent addii tion to members' salaries, the vote of ! £ISOO to the Premier for his trip Home, and all the departmental extravagances that are now going on. The North Island Main Trunk is apparently to bo practically stopped. Nearly all the men, it is stated, are to be discharged this week. The Gisborne-Karaha line which the Government made so much capital out of as a brilliant and original scheme for opening up the country, is to be retarded by tbo same means, and a large number have already been discharged from the Midland Railway. Despite the assertions of the Hon. W. Hall-Jones, thi re are rumors with a very solid foundation in fact that the Waipara-Cheviot work will not bo pushed on with at the same rates as in the past, but that a number of men will be discharged directly. Tho working man's Government is adopting a new plan of showing its regard for the working man.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 December 1901, Page 3
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196GOVERNMENT RETRENCHMENT Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 December 1901, Page 3
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