PARLIAMENT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 638, 15 October 1909, Page 5

PARLIAMENT.

;•; '' .'"»•"" '" '.;V . v> : ."" ;:J;§PpEtHjBy:XH^':PREMIKR. : V=V|-;;IIw;^>^EPLKTO; CRITICS..; , ■:. -. • ' ; ■ •... :■: ■'•;■ :•;Tho'.Couucil saf. for the entire.'afternoon:yes.vv. • c ?j;dar);when;.tKe Rebate "on; the Address-in- ■ , Eepiy'. was: carried on by. the; Hons. .'J: A. Sin- :■■' clair, ; J;;:Rigg,;and"J; Anstey.; \ , '! ■:' - V k :v the House,, it .-was • expected that: ;■•;■■'■. tteVdeba'te; , would "collapse before , tho' evening ..::.";adjqurnment.' ;; lnithe:aftornoon the' Hon. A. T. ':.■"Ngata' ( replied:to^riticisms.of.: the"Native land ■■■•■^f9!'y^ftH^W-":'.* o flwed'i by-i other -epeaierY' ■'.■■-•■'''lsy* ># r 'y f ':PAT t 0 * the ..evening Sir Joseph ;■'.;:,;WV 'replied at .-length to■ criticisms of. tho ;: Government's administration and "finance. T Hβ : ■• Savej an statement: of Hhe'financial v position qf the': Dominion,; and promised that ;-■•;;';! we; and-question should be" threshed out 'and :■; Anally tsettled, during ;tho, present session.'" Sir ..: Josephs,statemont;to,..this. effect was greeted ;!;; ;mth-' v cOnside W from r-/:*» i ;^e3.,«fithe,'Hpuse.v' i Tho Prime-Minister , ;.:v.also<;foreshadoyed-alterations of the. system bf ••:. acquiring; large estates,:.so that when they were a ; divWediSettlers.wodld up^the - : :lrad, ; at:.smaner.Teritals;than they .had had to' :.;; pay-in-some; instances.'in the past.' Mr'-T E \ North) -~ followed 'the r: PT n | ster ';^ th ■»-forceful'speech, TWch ..>,..dealt:mamly with the,land question,-and. Mr.'' ; :;f:?«:f«P>i)/ and,Mr; Seed: (Bay of ; ' fo » owfi<, House -adjourning -at I '- ;; " : -"rii*- P t*;i-^ j t r ? snlt '°Mlierenewed interest i ~: the debate, it is expected that at least , half-a-dozen members will: now" wish: to express '-.. ; ihwjyiews before rits concldsion; . '