AUCKLAND OPINION ON THE BUDGET.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11634, 5 November 1887, Page 2

AUCKLAND OPINION ON THE BUDGET.

- ' ■ 4> l- •' In referring to the Financial States ment the New Zealand Herald says ;— The Financial Statement, which hag been so anxiously looked Icnvig'now " before the public It«ig an'abfe &n& ".., exhaustive document, and places tflij ! oondition of the colony in its true lighi. '; Although that condition is not veiy . promising, it will be seen- that the'Co- « lpmai Treasurer takes a hopeful Aiew of ' the country's prospects,-and has every *; confidence that the difficulties that now ' • surround it-will be overcome if faced'a»' ' i that resolute manner whiob the statement discloses. A b was to be expecled, '. the retrenchment proposals of the Go. vernuaent form the main feature o£ the t Statemeafc: A retrenohmentpolicy was, ': as Major Atkinson =properly pointed ■; out, imposed upon the Government ana' ■I ■ the House, not only by the#<;ate of' the I country's finances, but also by the unanimous voice of the people, & ioxpresHd at the late elections. A; gbjgt' ;ds*l« 'of :;)» misgiving had, however,/^wen'x^eif '{- pressed as tp the .ability'of tfad'Hlmstey^ ': '' to cope with the task thus assigned ; i them, and inuendoes had been ihroM* ' out to infer that the preceding 1 JftihMry ' had praotissd economy to saohaiiexfeßlt' that it .would nofrbe jibMbi& for '■flStflf' 1-! suoceseors to carry i£ mußh: farfcblriwtiiout impaf ing the efficiency of the pubHo > - service. These forebodings': and prog* nostiQationa have, howeverlb^kn rodm* > \ pletely falsified, and a ii3ujHtffef{ft;2l! trenohment, characterised \-\\ ality land thoroughness, and; smbkesaji ' the expectations of the mdsf' MngSiT' r has been submitted, hy iwHipG^tKef| / annual expenditure chnrgeable on' thbfc< ''- revenue of,the cpJQny shall: be r&auce# £ by the largei istiak of £300,000,, }Ta*eb>':"-. as a whole th¥^tement«^iie^rtyti "! ring about it, and imppl^k afeoH§|nfcT evidence that the; <^i^B&jr;i'.hwf;e^ \ , earnestly id '%U^ ;:| duty ©remonstrating to .|HfiM|:|^^ the coldny theioe^ei^ity^tfAwttgß^lolS^ conducting their afigj^;' bot|,^p«Sp l;l. private, with';,a' inbre prudent;/Wd'/ates> |>C with a morei honest, rpg»i«i;!^iQir^p^