PUBLIC EXPENDITURE.
London Spectator, discussing "the great increase in public expenditure in Great Britain in recent years, remarked recently:— "The' pi'imary objection to increased State expenditure is that it involves the .multiplication of Goviernmemt official, and as a nej»stsary bonsequenoe jitih© isaibpTfdination. of /tho. fre«e .acticp. j of, 'the individual tto ... the red-tapp miles of a bureaucracy. That 'mean®: the extinction, of tih» spiirdt of earterprise upon wliich itihe progi'essi of the, nation depends, and the losie of that ifpoi-sonal JiiWify for which all men •crave." £ll view of the increase in puibliio expenditure in New Zealand from £7,122,340 in 1906 ,to £9,343,106 thiisi year—almost two and a quarter mi'llioius in five years.—the Spectator's remark has a veiy direct bearing on the position, of affairs Ihera.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10406, 29 August 1911, Page 4
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126PUBLIC EXPENDITURE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10406, 29 August 1911, Page 4
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