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TELEGRAMS.

By Telegraph — Fress Association

A GIGANTIC STEAL.

THE ACT.

WELLINGTON, Last Night

The regulations under the Tramways Act, which the.Govera.ment proposes to put into force, are causing considerable alarm in the .minds of the tramway authorities. Speaking to a reporter to-day, Mr John Smith, ■acting-Mayor, said lie regarded it as a !'gigantic steal"— another attempt by the Government to .steal the tramways from the people. It was sheer "daylight robbery" and a move that was clearly made to force the tramway authorities to isell out to the Government at a sacrifice. The adoption of the regulations would mean an extra expenditure of £50,000 to the Wellington Corporation. It is proposed to call a public indignation meeting. Hon. r. Mckenzie. replies to the opposition. NELSON, Last Night. 'The Hon. R. MeKenzie, Minister of Public Works and Mines, delivered a political address at Wakefield tonight, in reply to the speeches of Mr Massey and other Oppositionists. He dealt at length with taxation, finance and borrowing, mainly on the lines cf the speeches by Sir James Carroll. He read a return prepared by the Customs Department, showing remissions of taxation totalling £5,322,. 048 during the twenty'years of the Liberal regime. He dealt exhaustively with the public works policy, showing that between 1891 and March 31 at, 1911, £15,246,930 had been spent in the construction and improvement of railways, and £1,227209 on telegraphs and telephones.

Lasife year's expenditure by- the Department had been £1,342,400. He replied at length to Mr Massey's assertion that the Department paid for the Hutt railway", and road duplication, saying it was paid for by the Railway Department and local bodies. He also controverted Mr Massey's statements relating to a grant of £l5O voted for his district, and alleged to have been given for a road for the benefit of an individual. He estimated that an expenditure of £28,000,000 would give a fairly, complete system of public buildings, roads, railways, telegraphs, and telephones. A vote of thanks and confidence was accorded the Minister.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10285, 13 July 1911, Page 5

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TELEGRAMS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10285, 13 July 1911, Page 5

TELEGRAMS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10285, 13 July 1911, Page 5

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