THE RECORD OF REFORM

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2313, 21 November 1914, Page 7

THE RECORD OF REFORM

Hummed up, by MR. herdman. ■~ ; -The Hon.- Mr; 'Herdmaa- last'' night -thus summed up tie Legislative work ■of tla Government;..- i -. •.. ; ",Wehave legislated-for the poor and jthe rich, for the.worker .arid for the •employer; for, the young_and the old* for the fit and the unfit. For the prisons and the prisoners; for the judge and the-lawyer. For the soldier, the eailor the tinker and the tailor, the richman and the' Joorman. No onb has been ttJs6ed.in these Islands of'the Blest where probably; more legislation 'is manufactured in one year than in the whole of the rest of the British Empire -put together. . .' . '■Though war clouds have been-hang-ing over us, though the country ; has been convulsed by * industrial earth, 'quakes, though the Treasury was left /by our predecessors in a desperate state, though our opponents have indulged in gross abuse and misrepresentation we have managed to put up this splendid record of work; and notwithstanding all our troubles' and stress: I believe that we are still sufficiently lighthearted, to (sing 'It's a. Long, Long iWay to Tipperary,' and to, submit to you another scheme for the benefit of New Zealand which will keep us fully employed for another three yeara."-