The contentions of the Opposition, as we have often pointed out, really amount to this: that no Government ought to bring forward any proposals or mate any promises involving a considerable expenditure of public money on the eve of a general election. Could any doctrine be more absurd ? : Ministers are perfectly justified in giving as much attractiveness as possible to their programme and in refusing to allow the Opposition a monopoly ■of promises.—Dunedin Star*
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1606, 20 November 1905, Page 3
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74Untitled Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1606, 20 November 1905, Page 3
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