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THE SELF-GOVERNING PROPOSALS. y. GOVERNMENT POLICY CRITICISED. LATE COLONIAL SECRETARY'S VIEWS. Received 12, 10.7 p m. Loxdox, February 12. Mr A. Lyttclton, late Colonial Secretary, iu a letter to "The Times," commenting on the reports that the Government were meditatiug the abandonment of one vote one value, and substituting a system of giving greater weight to the mm liviug iu the country than the one living in town, cannot bring himself to believe that a Cabinet, containing good men and true patriots, can itl its initial plenitude of power and autlorit ■-, lend themselves to so weak and disastrous a policy. The late Government adopted a system, after many months of free discussion, iind the Transvaal showed that the general opinion of the community and parties, while sharply differing on other very material points, Vre here agreed. No petition against the principle had boen presented, and no whisper of criticism offered in the House of Commons during the debate on July the 9th. On the contrary Campbell-Ban-u'rman distine'ly apnroved of the electoral basis.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8046, 13 February 1906, Page 3
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