BUSINESS IN POLITICS.
The recent statement by the Hon, J. B. Donald that he does not desire to be. regarded as a politician, but as a business man, reverberated in the House of Eepresentatives last night, when Mr. Donald's Marine Department Estimates came up for discussion. Mr. P. Fraser (Labour, Wellington Central) did not consider it was right that the House should be required to consider the Department's Estimates when the annual report of the Department had not been tabled. "It is a most extraordinary way of doing business," he said., "Is this a sample of that unparalleled businesslike ability which the Minister has claimed for himself?"
"If this is a business way of doing things," said Mr. E. J. Howard (Labour, Christehurch South), "I hope we won't get any more business men in tMs House. It is the most slovenly thing we have had in the House during the eleven years I have been a member. I see that the Minister gays that business men get things done. Is this tho way he_ gets them done? All I can say is, save us from business men if this is the way they do things.
. . . I have been waiting and watching all the time the hon. gentleman has been in the House for some display of tue qualities he has been boasting about."
Tho Chairman: "Order." Mr. Howard: "Order what, sir!" (Laughter.)
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 68, 17 September 1930, Page 10
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