POLITICAL NOTES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 July 1924, Page 5

POLITICAL NOTES.

EARLY FINANCIAL STATEMENT. (By Telegraph—Special to Star.) WELLINGTON, July 14. The Prime Minister informed your correspondent to-night that he expects to have the Financial Statement completed. this week, though it might be early next week before it can be presented to the House. This is much earlier than usual, but the Premier a few days ago mentioned his anxiety to have certain important financial legislation dealt with at as early a date as possible. The delivery of the Statement depends to some extent on when the present no-conficlence debate concludes. Members suddenly commenced to take fresh interest in the matter at the end of last week, but the party whips agree that the list of speakers is so near exhausted that a division is likely on Tuesday night, and that Labour will not prolong the talk-. FARMERS AND THE PROFITEERS. A VIVID PICTURE. Encouraged doubtless by sympathetic references of members to the financial hardship of small farmers, a. branch of the Farmers’ Union has written to Mr Milford, leader of the Opposition, on the subject of exploitation of the producer, in which the following highly. expressive description is given of”his plight: “No doubt you are aware that it is an open season for ground parrots, and that they may lie shot, trapped’ snared, harpooned, galled, dragooned, blasted or damned. Thumbs are down for them, and profiteers in the shape of commercial cormorants and hanking buzzards arc not leaving even a pin feather to indicate that these useful birds once existed. There is j-et time to proclaim a sanctuary for them, hut it is too much to expect, and the’poolold cocky cowers close to the earth when he hears the beat of profiteers’ wings.”