THE BUDGET DEBATE.
The Budget debate which commences in the House of Representatives tonight promises to be long and acrimonious. . The Opposition will waste the time of the country in an attempt to show that no policy is disclosed in the Budget. And when Ministers convince it that there is an abundance of policy, it will set to work to prove that there is too muoh of. it for a single session. For the life of us we cannot see the utility of a budget debate, unless the Opposition is prepared to bring down a No-confidence motion. If it is prepared to do this, why nob do it at once, and save ffie country expense?' The time for opposition to individual measures is when those measures are before the House. To indulge, in useless rhetoric ovar legislation that has not been introduced, with,no other object than to miake a noise and fill the pages of Hansard, strikes us as the quintensence of political buffoonery. It cannot be justified by com-mon-<sense or reason.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 August 1913, Page 4
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172THE BUDGET DEBATE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 August 1913, Page 4
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