PRIME MINISTER ON BOLSHEVISM

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 6, 2 October 1920, Page 8

PRIME MINISTER ON BOLSHEVISM

MEMBERS AND THEIR SALARIES

The Legislative .Council opened a discussion on the indentured labour auestion yesterday, tho occasion being provided by tho Treaties of Pence Bill. The Prime Minister wade an emphatic statement regarding sedition and Bolshevism in tho House of Representatives in the afternoon, Ho stated that revolutionary propaganda in New Zealand In uat be stopped. The leiadcr of the Labour group (Mr. Holland) indicated dissent from the Prime Minister's view. ■ The To Aioha Crown Leases Bill was the first order of tho day. The leasehold members of the House had obstructed this Bill On other occasions, and they were not deterred from fighting again by the fact that the next Bill on the Order Paper was the Civil List Bill,' proposing increases in members' salaries. Eventually the Te Aroha'Leases Bill was put through committee unamended and parsed. , Amendments to'the Civil List Bill were introduced by the Government. The ■increases in salaries proposed by Ministers were larger than the increases in the original Bill, but did not go as far as tho recommendations of tho joint committeo had done. Much discussion toot place on tho Ministers' proposal that the increases should date from Jane SO last. Most members thought that the period of restrospection. should bo longer, and the Prime Minister eventually postponed this, clause, with a promise that the period should be from April 1. The rest tof tho Bill was put through before tho House rose closo upon midnight, , '