THE MEMBER FOR GERALDINE.
Mr Edward Wakefield, M.H.R. for Geraldine, has published in our morning contemporary an address to his constituents, in which lie pleads tho shortness of the recess, and the demands of public and private business in explanation of the method lie lias adopted of addressing them. Mr Wakefield submits that in supporting tho present Ministry he is studying the public welfare, and adds that ho is convinced that Mr Hall and his colleagues have devoted themselves most conscientiously to tho difficult and thankless labour which they originally undertook. Ho claims credit on behalf of the Ministry for having restored the finances of the Colony from a condition of wild disorder to a more hopeful state, and for having forced down the throats of tho “Liberals” their pet measures of electoral reform. He contends that the Property Tax was preferable to an increase of the land tax, but considers a scheme of indirect taxation would bo preferable to either. The Royal Commission ho justifies on the ground that they have been appointed with the full concurrence of Parliament-
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2244, 27 May 1880, Page 2
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180THE MEMBER FOR GERALDINE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2244, 27 May 1880, Page 2
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