HANSARDIANA.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 187, 15 August 1901, Page 3

HANSARDIANA.

Hon. J. G. Ward: Ho hoped, first, to erect ono consumptive hospital, probably Naseby. If that hospital worked quite satisfactorily, then, if unhappily the conditions of tho colony required additional sanatoria, some place in the North Island might be selected in order to have a second one. The Government required to see that the colony, by establishing hospitals of this kind, was not made attractive to sufferers outside the colony to come here and use our sanatoria.

Mr Laurenson : He thought there were few members of the House who did not realiio how fast wo wore becoming a toothless race. In .1881 there were thirty dentists practising in New Zealand ; in 1901, twenty years afterwards, there were 172 dentists. In other words, tho dentists wore increasing exactly twelve times as fast as the population, and, as these men found employment for their energies, it was to be assumed that there was a necessity for their services. Mr Hornsby : “ How would you deal with a man who falls from grace ? ” asks the honorable member for Riccarton. Well, when a Judge falls from grace be falls liko Lucifer, and ho gets out of tho colony as quickly as ho can—though sometimes ho comes back again. Hon. Mr Duncan : It might be right to tax the whole colony to meet the wants of now settlers in back blocks where they had nothing to pay with, and therefore it was that Government money was required for those blocks in straightout votes. When you come to tho other settled districts, he thought it was a good plan that the local authorities should contribute some part of tho money, because they generally kept a closer supervision over

it when thoro was some of their own money being expended as well as tho Government money.