WASTING TIME.
The country has a right to protest against the valuable time of Parliament. being wasted in the manner in which it has been during the last day or two over an acrimonious wrangle between -Sir Joseph Ward and the Chairman of the Public Aceounts Committee. Sir Joseph ma-v (have i felt his dignity a little injured at being pulled up by the Chairman of the Committee; but lie bad no right whatever to usq the t-ormi "impertinence," and to leave the mooting in a. huff. It .is his duty as an honourable public man to withdraw that expression, as he would .have •j been made withdraw it had it been insed in the House. His obstinacy is costing the country more than it can afford just now.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10718, 23 October 1912, Page 4
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129WASTING TIME. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10718, 23 October 1912, Page 4
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