WELLINGTON TOPICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1920, Page 4

WELLINGTON TOPICS.

THE SAMOAN PROBLEM

INDENTURED LABOUR

(Our Special Correspondent). WELLINGTON, Aug 2

Thu debate on the Samoan Deport, which was carried on till the lengthening hours of Saturday morning, will not make a very edifying contribution to the records of the House of llepresentutives. Of course the bone of contention was the question of indentured labour and even tire minister of . Internal Affairs and his colleagues could urge nothing further in favour of the importation of Chinese and other Eastern, workers than the necessity of keeping the existing plantations from going tc, 'rack and ruin. The leader of the Opposition and the other speakers on his side of the House gave a rather grudging assent to the system as a temporary expedient and the Prime Minister undertook that at the earliest possible moment the whole position would be reviewed and placed upon a better footing.

LABOUFt’S DENUNCIATION. Of course Mr 11. E. Holland, the chairman of the Labour Party, who day bv day is becoming less like an effective leader, denounced the whole of the island administration from beginning to epd. He would have the Natives exercjse the same power of self-determina-tion as he would give to Ireland or, presumably, to any other part of the Empire, and, if they desired it, would leave them to shift for themselves in the great work of reconstruction which will he taxing the genius and resources of the world during the next twenty or thirty years. But the general feeling in the House was that the Government was making an honest effort to solve the problem in the best interests of the Samoan people and with credit to the Dominion.

THE GAMING BILL. The Legislative Council has returned the Gaming Amendment Bill to the House with several important amendments, all aimed at making the lot of the bookmaker even harder than it would be under the original measure. One of the most discussed of the new provisions is an addition' to the definition of bookmaker, which is intended to. restrain the •’amateur” layer of the .odds, who, if this provision is adopted by the House, will be able to accommodate only one of bis clients on each hors.e, a restricted and hazardous business which would not be likely to bring mucfi grist to his mill. Sir Francis Bell, who had charge of the Bill in the Council, expects the House will demand a conference on the amendments, but is hopeful of their becoming law.

TOTALISATOR AND PERMITS. Particulars of Mr George Hunter’s Gaining Amendment Bill No. 2 are now available and are exercising the “antiracing” members of the House even more than are the Council’s amendments to Bill “No. 1.” Mr Hunter proposes that thirty-eight additional totalisator permits should be issued this season,. twenty to trotting clubs, ten to country clubs and eight to hunt clubs. The complaints hitherto have been that the metropolitan clubs have had more than their fair share of permits for flat racing and that the trotting enthuiasts have been very badly treated in this respect in comparison with the followers of the older sport. .Mr Hunter’s Bill will be much helped by the prospect of the extinction of the bookmaker, but most of all by the personal popularity of the member for Waipawa. HOW TO MAKE! A GOOD COUGH REMEDY AT HOME.

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