ABOUT PARLIAMENT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 959, 28 October 1910, Page 2

ABOUT PARLIAMENT.

SPEECH BY ME. W. C. BWCHANAN,

Mi'. W. C. Buchanan; M.P.for WairiK i rapa, touched: briefly on politics at ;th*'.-■...' annual suioko concert of the Wairarapa :'» and East Const P. and'A. Society on Wodnosday. It. was an old 6aying, ho said, that the Parliament of New-Zealand was _ : ■ What New 2ealanders .made it. Once'in ":'' every three years politicians: had to' Stand. -.. l ;- "before'the electors to , have/judgment pro- ".: nounced' upon them. -':He' not 'speak-- ■ " ing to proclaim tho'virtues of the present:/;. Parliament, or any other' Parliament^,' ; but New Zealand need not blush at tlio v; way. iuwhicli it had. followed the 'Old.V , ' .Country,•■:. England's examnle;.in Farlia- , ; ' ment' consh'uc'tion • .was,, being"''- followed ;'•' even.in.'Chjiia. ■'.P.arjlani<inr.';'liad';_b>;ii- : Havinp'a.Te'ry.' hard : ume lately,' Ecccntiy?/ it had done lorty'hours' liiitteo and House frorm; yAvriich '" lilcSui >,-.: five; days of eight hoursroiled'infcp.one; i> ! Ho would not say anything which' w.buld y.;. savour, of patty. No doubt the Govern- ;■,. ment and the' Opposition had theipideals.;.. and 'they at times said things;at':.one'." .. anothei', but after: nil they had,-the.; oiws , .; object;in : view-f.tho good .of ■ f land.- (Hear, hear.) Hβ (Mr.-'Buchauan) r-..-entered' Parliament in 1882. There 'trere -•';.'.. now only; three members in the .Souse •]{. who entered, it ; in that year, Ho *ould ?f no.trmention names;: but eoine who, were ;} ono time members had killed tliomselvea' ; ; • with hard work .in; the interests of the;? Dominion. The names of those men.WoUld ;, live- for ever in the .history of ..New ■ Zea* ■'; ■land. During this .-session- they liad; had more:measures of importance'before them ; ttian during any other "session whicli ho ''■•'. remembered. The House had opened in v. Jnly, and was likely to sit till the latter ■••!.. end of next month. What the outcome Of" t : their work ivould .be .he could', not say.: - Sonic of. the measures brought .down- bj : '< ; the Government would dp good for- : Ne#-\> Zealand.- Whether he was on the losing side or oo the winning side, his efforra '",'■. would in the future, as in the past, be V always devoted to the jnterosts of the die- T trict and of tho Dominion as a whole. ■