A MINISTER’S CURIOUS IDEAS.
The main southern lines and branches Tunning for many years through longsettled fat agricultural lands, do not pay 3 per cent. How can a long mountain line (the Midland Railway) that runs through utter desolation, and relies on the coal that a few people may want and the stores that a few other people-want, ever pay? AVhen Mr R. M'Kenzie can say that this preposterous line will be one of the best money.earners in the system it is without surprise’that we find him saying, with reference to the great Public Debt, that we" are not ■"“loading posterity,” but providing it with “the finest estate in the British. Empire.” No doubt we may hand on a fine property to our descendants,, but our descendants may be excused if they wish that their fathers had handed down a modest debtfree estate ratfier than a glorious heritage hopelessly mortgaged.—The “Dominion.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2597, 3 September 1909, Page 2
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151A MINISTER’S CURIOUS IDEAS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2597, 3 September 1909, Page 2
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