HANSARD.
.The B.a:.'g;:i'iko: Advocate stiggrtte that one of the ftrst economies which ■should bo practised by the new Govermneiyt is the abo'Jition of' Htasard. A great miany people will be found to ctAicur iaT this suggestion. The only purposes at preee-n.t .served by this fcoytfy production, is to afford dapiicu .s.politl'i'ral critics a"i cpfhrtiv.Tiity cJf' wasting tlip time cf tliie country with irrelevant quotations, and to enable members to supply seventy-five ; or a hundred of the'i. - ifa.unchest Gupporters- -with ropers o.f tOie utterances they did not deliver.'. Halisurd ;s not, as jsome pc.op'o 'E'V-ppcse, a .faithful record cf .the pvr.coodings in Parliament. A.s evid.-r..?!? of this tfaet we may state t'liat -a Jew years i:ack s< '.member cf ithe L:be:;al. (party delivered . a speed? •of fan hour'is duration, in' which he criticised the Government's -land policy in a caustic manner. Wiien. H;m«uil ?ppca,recl, i'he speech was Con-'den-sed into 'three or four lines!
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10676, 24 July 1912, Page 4
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152HANSARD. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10676, 24 July 1912, Page 4
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