RETRENCHMENT.
!A BOMBSHELL. FROM EXTRAVAGANCE TO PENURY; By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. Received 1.24 a.m.j April ffj SYDNEY, April 8.
The Treasurer’s proposed drastic retrenchment fell like a bombshell in the public service ranks. Tbe opinion is freely expressed that after the Government had pursued a career of great extravagance was 1 uovj to punish others for its own sins. The leader of the Opposition asserts that ihe Treasurer is doing now; what he should have done a year ago; • He declares that the increase of Elate debt under the administration of the present Government amounts to seventeen millions.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 862, 9 April 1903, Page 2
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