PARLIAMENT.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. fPer Press Association.) Wellington, September 28. The House met at 2.30. ' The Estimates. After the telegraph office closed, the education vote passed unamended. The Minister stated that the pre vious Government had committed . tin' cmintrv to £'.2.152.195. When he too.tr over office he had to find £1.281 000 and he would have to raise a million a year to meet the responsibilities lef 1 oil his shoulders when be a'ssunied office. Mr. Mapsey said the disclosure/ which the Finance Minister bad mud? showed a record of squandering such as this country had never known. amendment came with a very ljad grace to-day. Mr. ITine described the attitude of the Opoosition as the very essence of political hypocrisy. v The amendment was lost on the voices.
The whole of the Estimates passed and the House rose at 1.55 a.m.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 31, 30 September 1912, Page 5
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145PARLIAMENT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 31, 30 September 1912, Page 5
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