WANT OF CONFIDENCE RESOLUTIONS BY MR. STAFFORD.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1404, 17 August 1872, Page 3

WANT OF CONFIDENCE RESOLUTIONS BY MR. STAFFORD.

We observe from a Pros* Association telegram in the Herald of this momiug that the following resolutions—referred to in a telegram in another column—will he moved in the House of Representatives on Wednesday noxt, 21st inst., by Mr. E. W. Stafford : 1. That, in the opinion of this House, the administration of the Public Work 9 and Immigration scheme by the present Ministry has been unsatisfactory. 2. That the habitual absence of Ministers from the seat of Government during the recess, which results in their conducting important operations without frequent t opportunities of consulting each other, prevents that concert and unity of acting between the several departments essential to the efficient direction of public affairs, either Excutive or Legislative, and largely increases the cost of Government. 3. That, in order to administer the Public Works and Immigration policy in the most efficient manner, the Colonial Government should retain full responsibi litiy for the proper conduct of all works authorised, and sole control over all sums voted by Parliament, and should, when practicable, avail itself of any existing provincial or other local machinery in the supervision and execution of such works.