SPEECH BY THE PREMIER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7763, 15 March 1905, Page 2

SPEECH BY THE PREMIER.

I'ItOJIWALN I'Oll NEXT SESSION, * (I'er Trvm Association.) AUCKLAND, March 14. The Premier iiddivMiwd a crowded lulling ut (he Itrill Hull to-night, iheMu.vor (Hon. K. Mitchohwn) presiding. Mr St-ddou unnoimced thai lie cunsuiHdiitvd re-venue for the ■lfvni completed month* of the prelent liiiunciul year nun £O,!)US,tKK), ih HKniiiNt £<t,lsU,ooo in the pre•ious year. Then: would be, a nomiuil surplus oi übuut hajlf n million. a leipioted llguivs to dhow that durnil his term of office the (Jovonunent xpemied £l,o8»,000 on railway* and ■oads in thd North, an agaimit 41,170.000 in the Mouth Inland. Expeiilitme under thewe bends this >%»r . ~u>uldbe increased by half a wilUon. 'lie admitted that frown tenant* had ooeu uudul.v huratwed lij- ratywwnnd Court uAumls-. and stated (iwl In hIN where the interest* of the .k'llunt iM]iiiii k .u] or rxewrted that of the Crown the tenant nhuold be alIlowed to fiirm us lie irfniwd. He intended next Ncssimi lo submit a propositi to Rive the whole of the. on limber and flux to the public bodies in whose «liKliiet« they wore raised ; olio a scheme for .the consolidation of locul bodfe* mm. |vernment. He aJsoi propoiml to, advance the capital for the o*t»<>lishment of fruit-canning factories Now the tiownuiKiil gcplorUt would bo provjded with aU t& cuiulpnont * he desired. Mr addon Mid he would propose « further increase of teachers' gajariu*. and bukkoA . «*» t « provide a untvoniltyi building for Auckland. ranHamcnt wwuTtot aJan «Bk«l to incrcmw tho old Mon; from 7* to to* per ■JSfa.' :*