THE BUDGET DEBATE.
The Budget Debate opened sensationally on Friday night, when a splenetic speech by Mr G. W. Russell, ' the self-appointed Leader of tho Opposition, drew from the Hon. F. M. B. Fisher one of the' most convincing exposures ever made within the precincts, of the New Zealand Parliament. The country has suspected for years that the Administration has been playing the game for all it was worth. It wis not prepared, however, for such
prompt and irrefutablo evidence of
tho incapacity of those Avho have conrtrolled the public pursj as was supplied by Mr Fisher. As time goes on, further exposures may be expected; but in the meantime the Minister for Customs deserves credit for tho fear!c;.v manner in which he hid bare the grave abuses that liave been practised in tho mame of Liberalism. The hop-: for the country, however, docs not lie so much'in th e exposure of the misdeeds of past Governments, as in the expressed determination to transact the affairs i.n the future on businc&s inytead of political lines.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10691, 12 August 1912, Page 4
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175THE BUDGET DEBATE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10691, 12 August 1912, Page 4
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