LOOKING FOR TROUBLE.
The _ Mas-scy Government is evidently looking for trouble. The Prime Minister has refused to grant the holder of a lease-in-perpetuitv in Southland th 0 mineral rights of' hi. s land with the freehold. The Hon. 'James Allen has floated a three and a-half million loan when he should have floated a loan for fiv P millions. The Hon F. M. B. Fishe,- has credited Sir Joseph Ward with having risen from the position of message boy in a Post OPu-e that of Postmaster-General. The Minister of Works hfi-s stopped expenditure where it is not urgently n>ouired. because be has no mmiey! The Hon. A. L. Herdman has refused to liberate, a man who was committed to Rotoi Roa T«innd without making some inquiry. What next mav we ox7,oct to hapnen? Will the ' Post masterGeneral send memos, on public business over the telegraph wires? Or the Ministe- of Native Affairs attend a "i-vvn?" Really, the position is becoming serious?
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 February 1913, Page 4
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161LOOKING FOR TROUBLE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 February 1913, Page 4
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