Cut it Short .
Hansard this year is larger than ever. Honourable members have been filling it at the rate of 211 words pet minute, and ,the Hansard staff has been heroically endeavohring to record each word. The colony pays seven or eight reporters £3OO a year each for this work. The volume of talk has beeu so torrential that.the resources ;of the staff are being severely taxed, and Hansard volumes, are larger than ever. It is proposed to engage another reporter at £3OO to strengthen the staff. The cost of reporting and printing this flood of Verbiage poured out in the House year by year is far in excess of what the country requires. Not one in a thousand reads Hansard, and indeed it is not worth reading. A sum • mary of honourable members’ eloquence is as much as the colony wants, or, indeed, can afford to pay for.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1783, 30 October 1895, Page 2
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149Cut it Short. Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1783, 30 October 1895, Page 2
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