SIMPLY SCANDALOUS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 58, 21 March 1944, Page 2

SIMPLY SCANDALOUS

HOTELS OR SCHOOLS?

MR DOIDGE. M.l\ SI'EAKS

Mr F. W. Doidge. M.l\ I'or Tauranga. said during the second reading 'debate of the Invcreargill Licensing Committee Bill, thai des•jji tappeals to the (invernmen t no idea had been g ven oi 111" (lovernnient's n!enti hk and consequently the Opposition felt they had no ■ ternative but lo vole against the Bill. There \va.> no disposition <im the part of the Governincnl lo lake the slightest, noli 'e of the need lor amendment to the licensing laws and it was no! unt'.l the Leader of 'he Opposition slated that he and his partv were determined unon the. appointment of a Royal Com missum I hat the Government suddenly sal up and took nolice. • L ask the' .Minister in charge of the Bill, who is also Minister of Education, whether he. is going lo agree to the building of palatial hotels in Invercargill. while we need schools s.) urgently,'' said Mr Doidge. "The Minister knows that in my constituency the position in regard to schools js simply scandalous. X>> pubic health inspector would allow the conditions lo prevail in a factory that prevail in schools in my area, where thousands of children are carrying on from day lo day in miserable little hole's and anywhere they can be crowded." Air Doidge said that surely the Committee, could grant, provisional licenses to carry on until such times as those better conditions that all desired coukl prevail. A temporary arrangement would be better than denying the people of Invercargill their rights.