The Chronicle. PUIBLISHED DAILY. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1910 THE COUNTRY'S NEED.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 September 1910, Page 2

The Chronicle. PUIBLISHED DAILY. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1910 THE COUNTRY'S NEED.

l*i' to the present time the Parliament of New Zealand has said' a very great deal, but has accomplished; a very .small amount of work. Xone l.ho less, the talk of the last two months will do a very groat deal towards expediting the work of Parliament during the last two months of the session. The expressions of opinions and the interchange of ideas which spring out of the annual debates and discussions on the Financial Statement and the .\ddress-i 11-Reply enable members to deal expeditiously with a great deal of the business that comes before thorn later in the session. This characteristic off Parliament should he beneficially apparent, when the Government's proposed amendments of the Land Act are tabled: this week. These certainly will be donated at some length, but the fact that practically every member of the House has touched upon the subject's of freehold and. leasehold in the course of speeches delivered during the opening weeks of this session will help to shorten considerably the inevitable debate. For this prospective celerity the people of the country should feel grateful, seeing that the amendments to be presented for Parliament's consideration will give a fuller measure of recognition than at present obtains to the general demand for wider freehold rights. The tenour of the country's opinions is so markedly favourable to the freehold that the* enactment of necessary machinery to give effect to that desire should be hurried through as speedily as may be.