MULE-LIKE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 200, 16 April 1932, Page 5

MULE-LIKE

("Post" Special Comfnissioner)

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weLliNgtQn, Ffiaay: TBe s'cCond_ reading of thfe T^atfonal ExpenMure Adjustmeni Bill wUk carned to-xiiglit by 46 voteS to 25^ but tB'ere is liveiry iridicatidxi tBat tBe vptiqg will fcc niuph ciosei* when,, the Bill reacBes thc comriiittee stageis arid wBeii tB'e ciaBses affectiBg BeBslonfe knd samry reductions' come iip for cohsideration. The Prime Mihistei's assurancC that there is xio cave witKin ihe Government ranks fiisy be taken with a grain 6f salt; ak sihce he maiie that declafation, severaj members of tBe Government Party Have expressed Opposition to sections of the Bill iin viery definite terms. Mes'srs Hargest, Samuel and Harris have made strong attacks on the Government's economy proposals, espeeially in fespect to pensiohs, and several 6'then jafty supporters have shown a d1stinct unwillirigness to accept the Prime Minister's assufaiie'e that the Ecoriomy Commissibii's p'roposdls are the only way otit. * ' A nu'mher of members have Bevoted much time to curfency feform, find several able speeches on this questiori have hpen delivered, indicating that rhemhers ai*e fealising that an ecohomy policy that will cause hafdship is not the only way o'iit of the difficulty. It is bb'vibus that the Prime Ministef "vvill not ^approach the points that" have Been raised iri ariy deliberative attitude and it is evident frorii his re-

joiners that with hina, it is a caSe of Bill, whole Bill, and nothing hut the Bill. Whfeth'er Mr. Forbes cannot grasp the suggestions made in a qqestion he alone cari ariswer. His stubbornness has how become firoverbial and this idio'syncrasy is sorely trying the patience of some of his followers. After all a mitle has the same characteristic.