OTHER PAPERS’ OPINIONS.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 257, 11 October 1928, Page 4

OTHER PAPERS’ OPINIONS.

“FUNERAL BAKED MEATS.” For all the good that it did, the Public Works debate might as well not have been taken. It had practically no relation to the Public Works Statement. The discussion upon it reminds one of the saying attributed to a cynical friend of Mr. Lloyd George: “ I believe Lloyd George can read, but I am quite sure he never does.” If members of the House of Representatives had read the Minister’s Statement they gave little'evidence of such reading in their speeches. They had nothing to say of the economics of road and railway construction, no comment to offer upon the proposals made for the future, and no remarks to make regarding the progress of hydro-electric development and the plans for new construction. Here and there criticism was voiced in general terms of the scale of public works expenditure, and of the allocation for particular works; but there was nothing which bore the faintest resemblance to an 1 examination of the policy Members of Parliament may plead in excuse that the question they did <Jis- | cuss—unemployment and relief works

, j conditions—is of paramount import- ; | ance. We cannot see that it is unless ■’•the critics have something fresh to ! offer for consideration. Last night l J they offered nothing. The baked - ' meats of previous debates did coldly ; ; furnish another feast of political elo- . ! quence for the hungry electors. The ; I pre-election speeches made last night ; * gave no new information, proved : nothing that was formerly doubtful, * ! and contained no suggestion of prac- , ! tical utility in dealing with unem- ; ployment.—Wellington Evening Post.