PALTRY CRITICISM.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 2 December 1912, Page 4

PALTRY CRITICISM.

Some of your Opposition journals aro hard put to it for pegs upon which to hang'the hat of criticism. The N.Z. Times, for instance-, suggests that the Government 'was guilty of '.in extravagance in providing a platform in front of the new Wellington Post Ofrico for tho accommodation of .speakers on the occasion of the official opening of that building. The Times was ominously silent when se\ - oral hundreds of pounds were spent in champagne, to he guzzled by the favoured few, when tho Public Trust Office was opened. It was silent when receptions and farewells Ave re tendered by Liberal Ministers, at the State expense to almost every Dick, Tom and Harry who fawned upon them. It made no profession, of disgust at the expensive sham ceremony of laying the foundation-stone at tho new Parliamentary Buildings. Xo, it allowed these things to bo done in the name of Liberalism without a word of protest. But when a few pounds aro expended in making a necessary provision at a necessary public function, it throws irp its hands in holy horror and leads one almost to believe that the country is being driven headlong into the Bankruptcy Court over a few pieces of six by two scantling! And that is criticism!