THOSE FREE PASSES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1220, 31 August 1911, Page 4

THOSE FREE PASSES.

A STATEMENT IN PARLIAMENT.

In reply to Mr. Nosworthy, wlio suggested that Plunket Nurses were at least as well entitled to free railway passes as the Homo Rule delegates, the Hon. .1. A. Millar stated in Parliament yesterday: "The two cases arc not analogous. Tho Homo Rule delegates comprised two monitors of the House of Commons, who would, in any. case, have received the courtesy of free passes during their travels in .New Zealand. Tho third was a gentleman of distinction in the Old Land, and, as ho was travelling in conjunction with tho two members of the British Parliament, he was, at their request, accorded the compliment of a frfo pass. The good work done by tho Plunket Nurses is fully appreciated and recognised, but at the samp time there are several bodies engaged in philanthropic work in our midst, who would, in equity, bo entitled to participate in any concession granted to the Plunket Nurses. This would involve tho issuing of n considerable number of railwny passes, and, alter having given tho circumstances careful consideration, I regret that I cannot jco my way to comply with the request."