POLITICAL PELLETS.

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 21, 17 October 1929, Page 11

POLITICAL PELLETS.

(By Miss Nelson Street)

"This is going to be a barren Session as far as the working people are concerned,' ' said Mr P. Pra'ser (Wellington i Central) in the House of Bepresentatives last week.

But it seems to an impartial observer Ikat it tto Government finds work for the thousands and thousands of unemployed throughout the country, that stupendous act must surely be considered helpful to the worker? ' .

"We are going to adjourn leaving many of the social evils not remedied" continued Mr Fraser.

To suggest'that the brand new Govern ment could, as'well as solve the unemployment, question, "wipe out all tn6 other social evils in ten months, is, indeed, a compliment to the members of .the United Ministry. '

■ Members should use their heads, and allow the Government to find its feet. They'must be given reasonable time to find out where they stand. -

When speaking on the Shops . and Offices Act, the Minister of Justice (Hon T. M. Wilford), Leader of toe House in tke absence of Six Joseph Ward, said Be thought the Labour Bills Committee, with an officer of the Crown. Law Office woulc be ■ competent to investigate the question. Any proposals, .of course, would have to be submitted to Parliament with ,whom the first responsibility rested.

People with large families will be glad to hear that the Minister of Education said he expected that the schoolbooks would remain unchanged for five years.

So Tommy will fall heir to Bill's leftoff school books as Avell as his left-off pants. That means a lot to struggling parents. Families should be regulated accordingly.

The Minister of Justice (Hon. T. M. "Wilford) moved the second reading of the Summer Time Bill. It is the same Act passed last year, explained the Minister. The only different provision; is that it is now proposed to make the advancing of the clock -by half an hour during the summer time perpetual until the House repeals it. There Is a right to consider it at any time. The half-hour has again been pro-

posed as a. compromise

Why this fear about the rising generation's inability to make good on the land if they are given an agricultural bias? Do the croakers think that the 3-ace is degenerating 1.

One would think that instead of decaying the effort of the Government to. get the people out of the cities into the open country our legislators would be far seeing enough to welcome any effort in that direction. .

Yet we read that the Hon. G. M. Thomson (Legislative Council) considered that land was far too dear to carry out the suggestion. That the area was not sufficient. He was afraid that after two or three years' tuition, in socalled agricultural education the pupils would be/thrown back on their own resources if they were placed on sections.

And Mr H. S. Kyle (Befonn, Biecarton) when speaking on the Farm Lands Bill said it was only a matter of time when everybody would be Jiving in flats. God forbid.

If that is the case, the United Govern ment is more than justified in its effort to break tip the large estates and settle the agriculturally-biased on land, at a reasonable price.

Moving the second reading of the Urban Farm Lands Bating Bill, the Minister Jfor Internal Affairs (Hon. P. A de la Perrelle) said he thought the measure would appeal to all parties. Mr PerreUe said that during the short time he had held the Portfolio of Minister of Internal Affairs a number of deputations had waited upon him asking for relief on the lines of the Bill now before the House.

An amendment to the law to enable the Minister of Mines to grant assistance to necessitous dependants of the miners who lost their lives in the Kaitangata disaster, was recommended to the House of Representatives by the Goldfields end Mines Committee.

The Committee referred to the favourable consideration of the Government .to the petition of Hannah Wilson and 46 others who asked for a distribution of the^ balance of the- Kaitangata relief fund.

This matter has come before Parliament for ages past and it was quite

amusing to hear the Leader of the Opposition (the Bight Hon. J. G. Coatee) say that he considered that the time Sad arrived when this matter should be cleared ap and done with.

Does Mr Coates credit the United Government with the ability to set right all the opportunities neglected by the Eeform Government during its sixteen-^ years in office? It looks like it.

The Member for Masterton (Mi Sykes) became quite concerned at tke thought of the Nauru and Ocean Island supplies of phosphates "petering

out."

Even if the supplies (which we are told are ample for our requirements for another 100 years) do,run out, what will it matter?

By that time, all up-to-date farmers ■null have their owa aerial aviary, stocked Avith guano producers Suspended above their oayti locations, or, they may have wakened up to the use and valß© of marine vegetation as a fertiliser.