NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS.
THE “BULLETIN’S” CRITICISM
111 its issue of November 16, the Sydney “Bulletin,” a, journal that is, on the whole, friendly to the New Zealand Gpvefninent); has some plain observations on the 'Government’s fiman.ethods. referring to the i-faC "Sessions, it observes• of course, show,a deficit the?' lines' are narrow and rickerty ; the carriages old and ramshackle ; but the huge reductions help to buy votes, and when the lines become _ • really too awful the useful loan will ; probably patch .things up.. The gatidy paper surplus also helps to bring votes, so it is kept tip by neglecting to charge much, ordinary expenditure * to revenue, and then paying the omitted expenditure partly out of the surplus and partly out of loans. Jt is once more the case of the man •ivrth 40s. a . week who pays for his tobacco (Is) out of the ordinary revenue, iand lias 39s surplus, and out of that splendid surplus and some money raised at the pawnshop pays his board, lodgings, clothes, and sundries. - eix years, despite a magnificent
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2360, 28 November 1908, Page 7
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174NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2360, 28 November 1908, Page 7
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