POLITICAL JOTTINGS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1924, Page 3

POLITICAL JOTTINGS.

TO GET A HOI SK. ".My old school-master told me Hint some; liovs develop from the; nook u i>wards, nod some' from the- nook downwards."' statoil Mr A. 1„ MonU'itli < Wellington East) in the course of the linanee elelmte; ‘"and it strikes me l that some him. members develop in the same way.” This, he said, apropos of "the great thought that the lion, metnhor for Kgnioiit >.Mr O. J. Iliiwken) must have put into the housing problem, and the ntimher of lleadaeltes he must have suffered in evolving the idea that every man should have a house when he married.” \\ lty if from the ape of "J2 a man could put by CIO a year, lie would, added Mr Mouteitli, be o '2 years of ape before he would he in possession ol a house costing L‘looo, and furniture costing L'"Jof) and before lie could look around lor a blushing bride. (Laughter.) And it lie was as slow in getting it brdie as in getting the house and the furniture, he (Mr Mouteitli) did not know what would happen to the next generation. ( Laughter). CITY DEBENTURES. Declaring that the continual Labour attacks on the morlagces was making people very careful ol leiidinp their moni'y to farmers and others, declared Mr 11. A. Wriplil (Wellington Suburbs) ill the House of Kepresentaof atives. In proof of this he cited the ease of a Wellington workinp man who had saved L‘ooo, and had come to Jiitu to ask him. if it would be safe for him to invest it in Welinpton ( itv debentures, lie had assured him that it would l>e quite safe; that the law was on the man's side in the matter, and that if the City Council defaulted he could put the receiver in ami pet his money hack. “Hut,” demanded the man, "‘what would happen it the Socialists (were to capture the City Council.” (Laughter.)

cjt \TETKS CONSOLIDATION. Mr W. I’arrv (Auckland Central) asked in the House if the Government intended having the statutes tonsolidnted on the lines of the consolidation of Ifi(l8. ami if so when would the consolidation he completed. The Prime Aliniser replied that the Covernment did not think it necessary to arrange for consolidation in the near future in the same way in which the statutes were dealt with in 100 S. Asi matter of fact, in a number of H'c Acts there had lieen very little alteration since 1008. and in other respects t-he Covernment had kept the statutes up-o-date. ru 1020 the Health Act. IT* and the Muuieipal Corporations Act had been consolidated, and to I.LI the Patent Designs and Trademarks Act had 1.-ceii consolidated. Mr Massey was proceeding to give further information on the when the Ifott .1. A. Hunan objected on the ground that a similar question was on the order paper, and that in the circumstances the answer could not he given to Mr Parry's question. 'I lm objection was upheld.

THK COW'”' "'"”-- ”"\RNKD. “Those who take to the sword shall persil. I;v the sword.” the Scriptures told us. said Air A. L. Monteith, (Wellington Kast) in the House ol ltepresentatives. and so he believed that l ie Government that lived by the nets of converted Liberals— Tic would not put it more harshly—would perish m the .same way.