POLITICAL NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2125, 6 July 1907, Page 3

POLITICAL NOTES.

(Special to Times)

WELLINGTON, last night. Quito a sheaf of Departmental re ports were laid on the table by Minis ters this afternoon, most of them of purely formal nature. The total rof number of the Native schools of thd> colony at the end of 1906 was 4,174, as against 3,863 in 1905. The total expenditure on the schools during the year was £29,755. Mr. Lauronson, M.H.R., will address a public meeting at Gisborne on the 13th instant.

The member for Riccarton says the Addington workshops are turning out, engines that are far and away superior to anything received from England, America, or anywhere else. Mr. Gray, member for Christchurch North, says the boundary Commissioners have put a cemetery into his electorate. “May it be a long time before they put you in it,” retorted Mr. Witty, and the House laughed. Mr. Witty, in his speech on the Adel ross-in-Renly motion, complained of the way the Boundary Commission had done their work. He said, “These men must have been used to putting up dog-leg fences in the dark, because every electorate is full of zig-zags. The Commissioners, did not trouble about community of interest at all.”

The Hon. Mr. Mills has given notice to ask the Minister of Immigration whether, owing to the serious difficulty nearly every mistress has to contend with in securing the services of a domestic servant, in this colony, and the consequent “homo slavery” it imposes on women with families, he will take immediate steps to ascertain from tho Higli Commissioner in London if he can send out some respectable servant girls, and thus relieve the miserable and unpleasant tension which now exists throughout the country in so many homes? _ Mr. Barclay, -olio of the Government’s staunch supporters, is asking for the introduction of a Pair Rent Bill, with a view to preventing the sjjgorbitant rents of certain city properties.