PARLIAMENTARY.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1923, Page 1

PARLIAMENTARY.

Thy tet.e'} it at n —t>eii chess association] TFIE COUNCIL. A DDT!ESS-IN-REPLY. SPEECH P.Y TfON IT. L. MICTIEL. Till* Hon IT. T.. Michel rejoiced Hint His Excellency's advisors ivor<> able to spook encouragingly of the tuinneial position of lie country. As regards the public service, lie thought _wo hud arrived nt. a. danger point. Me had 51.000 public servants, and if we went on as we bad been coin'.' the time would come when they would run the country. AYe could not in these democratic! days suggest the disfranchisement of our civil servants hut it might he well to consider whether .special representation in Parliament would not be better than having things going oil as they were to-day. Sir Francis Bell: No. AD- Afichel said he failed to see why the civil servants should not he given such representation without the power thev now had to hold the balance m „r the electorates of the Dominion. With the exception of one party the political parties of this country slum d be ashamed of their apathy. Outside one party there had been no propaganda work. Years ago there used to be ,ve-s'’ssional addresses, but now this and other means of propaganda were left to extremists. Nothing had >e ( l„ne to counter the propaganda nt t.ie extremists. He thought an immigration poliev would he good hut w< should closely scrutinise the immigrants I " believed that economy must still » practised, and that there could he no increase in employment until taxation was reduced.

WELLINGTON. l' ! 'h. 11. THE HOUSE. The House resumed at 2.30 p m. The debate on the Address-in-Pep.y was continued by Messrs Hockley. Buddo. Sullivan. Luke. Smith and Barry. The debate was adjourned on the motion of ATr Lysnar. The House rose at 10. Hi p.m. till 11 o'clock to-morrow.