In Lighter Vein.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 August 1911, Page 4

In Lighter Vein.

" V ISALD-HUADFD KIMTOME OF STALK MOWS. , '

' WKI/UNGTQN, August I. "As bare as a plate-glas.s -window and as bald at a billiard hall," was Mr A. W. Hogg's description of the Governor's Speech. He said it was a miserable, bald-headed epitome of stale news, with nothing to catch hold of. He added that snaring above such matters as til it , gilt ol a Dreadnought, the- Gorman -menace or the Moroccan crisis, he desired to speak of the Rimutaka deviation, (l.a'iighter). . It was a liild. bleak incline, and Mr Hogg added In , wondered that sometimes he did not emerge from its numerous smoky tunnels tran.shirnicd into something like bacon. It was a Tory railway, built for party purposes, «nd the Government should take in hand some deviation. II: b)\<\ two millions given for a Dreadnought- in a moment of panic caused 'by a flagrant, Torv falsehood had bti-eii' spent on necessary public works, the face of New Zealand could have been changed. >lr Fisher: You were in the- Cabinet- that gave tho Dreadnought. Whv didn't vou resign.

Mr Hong: I resigned early enough. 1 did so because I did not ;,..,-'rVo with li!:e Ministry -is to the method of carrying on the public works, and as in the necessity for deaiing with the monopo.li.st and opening up land for settlement, and the necessity for handling our own finances 'and establishing a _ paper currency such as they have in Australia now. and such as we will have to follow soon. Mr Fisher: Vou should have resigned on the Dreadnought issue. Mr Hogg: No. f would do the same thing again if \ thought Fugland was in a hole and required ass:stance .but I am confident there iv.i; no necessity lor the Dre.-i. , - ii:)ii>'ht. We were misled. Mr -I. -Mien: Who misled you? Mr f-foirs: I cannot i "11 you. &ome on? hitched his warrii'on to a lie. It was a base falsehood (lashed over the wires. Ido not think Germany bad tho slightest idea of quarrelling with Great Britain. ft was one of those Torv lies that 1 cannot gel lo the bottom of.