NOTES AND NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 648, 27 October 1909, Page 9

NOTES AND NOTES.

1.1 DRAUGHTS AND THOROUGHBREDS. ■ iAttention was drawn by Mr. Rosa'(Pahiatua) yesterday to the sufferings which mombors ; in the rear seats -of-the,Houbo eadtired from draughts. Mr. Boss said he did not kuow. who was the Minister in'oharge of draughts, but it was not the Minister.for .Railways■ or the Native Minister, who,"as he gathered from the newspapers, were more'interested in thoroughbreds, i (Laughter.) He hoped that something would be dono to prevent continuance of the trouble." ' • ■ ' ; Sir Joseph Ward said that if Mr. Eoss would say who was the-Minister for Draughts the question could bo referred to him. \; _ ■ -Mr. Eoss said he thought that the Minister for Publio Works or the Speaker might reply. He had exonerated two Ministers, and if the Prime Minister had risen before he would have exonerated him. ■' \ The Speaker said that the only way to prevent draughts was to shut the windows, and that would probably moke the chamber ,so close 'and stuffy as to occasion other 'complaints. "' ■- Mr. : G. *W. Ruseell (Avon) thought that some responsible person should prepare a report on the ventilation or the chamber. ,Mf. Buchanan (Masterton): Appoint a Eoyal .Commission.'' ;.: ■;■... ;. . : ■ ... REINTRODUCING THE FEUDAL SYSTEM. According to Mr. Buiek, M.P. for. Palmers-, ton North, the Government is the only party in New Zealand that is attempting to reintror duoe tho feudal system. The Opposition want the freehold—tho freehold for everybody—but the Government want landlords And tenants. "We. have," he says, "an attempt being made now by the Government to have all the Native lands leased—to Europeans, I suppose, for the most part—so it:;would seem: that we arc to have dukes in Now Zealand, and only instead of them being the old Norman knights of the Old Country we are to have the aboriginal Natives of New Zealand; they will be the 'dukes,' and we, the poor foreigners, will have to do the work. Now, I maintain that we must pnt a etop to all that. Wo Want no landlords horo, either black or white; wo want freeholders, and I say that if we put young men on the land, and givo them tho freohold, and give them military training, tcaohing thorn to nso the rifle, then God help the foreign foe that comes hero to interfere with thora."