M.P.'S AND FREE STEAMER PASSAGES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16857, 10 June 1920, Page 6

M.P.'S AND FREE STEAMER PASSAGES.

: * CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PROTEST. At the meeting of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce Council, held on Monday, a letter was received from the Prime Minister, in reply to a question, as to whether a paragraph appearing in tho newspapers some time ago that members of Parliament had been granted, free steamer passages by tho Union Steam Ship Company to Wellington, stating that the paragraph was correct. Tho following resolution has been forwarded to tho Prime Minister I "That this Council views with tho strongest disapprobation and regret the Prime Minister's application to the Union Steam .Ship Company for free passages for members of the Legislature when travelling between Wellingtou and Lyttelton and affirms the principle that under no circumstances should !any member of the Legislature, as such, be placed under a private and personal obligation to the proprietor or. proprietors of any private business carried on in New Zealand, and that the proper travelling expenses of all members of Parliament es i ©preventatives of the wbolo Dominion, be paid from tho Consolidated Fund."