Tim Ministry threaten the coun-! try with another "grievous mur-j rain " next session; thty promise us | one-mnii-one vote in Municipalities.' The direct elfcei of this change will j ho to restrict the investment of capi-1 tal in new buildings, and the improvement of old ones. It will mean probably a thousand more carpenters, I plumbers, masons, and general laborers, thrown out of employment, and for what purpose? According to Mr Reeves, it is to compel a universal Saturday half-holiday. It is criminal, on the part of the Government, at a time when trade is depressed, and the Colony ill able to all'prd disturbing legislation of this kind, to force it upon us. The Colony can stagger under lovr prices ii'nd bud seasons, but if the Government will insist upon worrying it with unnecessary and disastrous changes, it must accept the responsibility of the further depression which it is deliberately bringing about
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4942, 4 February 1895, Page 2
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