We have borne with the Legislative Council long enough to bear with it for a year loDger. Wo were tolerant of it when it took part with the Assembly in the raid on the Treasury ithat preceded the selfraising of Parliamentary salaries. We have no fear that it will so repent and reform if a fow days of grace are accorded it that the country will indignantly repudiate any interference with it—knowing as we all do that its members, as a body, the nominees of Mr Seddon, have neither the capacity nor the energy to make it other than it is. There is no reason whatever for its immediate and unoonsidered abolition excepting the possibility—disliked by cur Premier—that a reasonable discussion may conyince the country and the House that the Legislative Council should be made representative and not destroyed.—New Zealand Herald. The money squandered on purchasirg Southern estates, extending unnecessary Southern railways arid over-administering a bureau-burdened flclpny would allow our Auckland roads and bridges and railways to be gone on with. As things are, the province is being seriously harassed by the practical stoppage, in the'most effective months of th 6 year, of public works necessary for its industrial development. But as long as any of the Auckland members fail to insist upon the needs of the North being fairly considered, as a condition to their support of the Government, just so long shall wo have to complain that our colonial expenditures generally find their way South Iwhile our colonial economies are generally praotisod in the North. —' Auckland Herald,
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1038, 3 November 1903, Page 4
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259Untitled Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1038, 3 November 1903, Page 4
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