Drivelings from Hansard

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 21, 30 July 1885, Page 3

Drivelings from Hansard

Mr Seddon urged that the use of bank notes should be discouraged as much as possible. Diseases were often spread by the circulation of notes. [We are to assume from this that the absence of epidemic diseases on the West Coast is owing to the limited bank note circulation there from the bad times.] Mr J. C. Brown said if Mr Hobbs wished to be consistant, he should put down the totalisators and consultations. The hon. member for Waitotara, (Mr Bryce) was as fond of a game of chance as most people. He was often playing chess whilst others were attending to their duties. (Oh !) He did not mean to say that the hon. member gambled. [This hon. gentleman calls chess a game of chance. The opportunities of this wise legislator appear to have been few for extending his sphere of knowledge. No doubt he considers chess, cricket, and whist games of chance also. Poor man.] Mr Barron said his objection to the Bill was that it failed to recognise the rights of persons who, living in the vicinity of fortifications, might have their windows damaged by the guns being fired. It would be advisable, he thought, that the officers should give notice to such persons when the guns were to be fired, in order that precautions might be taken. [" Just before the battle mother," mind you shut the windows.]