POLITICAL JOTTINGS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1924, Page 1

POLITICAL JOTTINGS.

“THK (INK I’.WK LAMB.” “It is a hoary-headed old sinner. It has already been dealt with four times tliis session.” remarked the lion Cl. .1. Anderson, referring to the amendment by the Leader of the Opposition to the first item in the Post a nil Telegraph Estimates! “It seemed,” adtled the Minister, “to he the one and only ewe lamb the Liberal Party had got.” Mr .1. 1!. Corrigan (Ptiteti): Is u ewe lamb a hoary-headed old sinner? (Laughter). “PETULANT AND PEEYISH.” “The Prime .Minister in his petulant and peevish outburst said nothing,” declared the Leader ol the Opposition 'Mr T. Ai. Wilford) in the course of the debate on the Post and Telegraph Kstimalvs. “He seemed to he suffering from ‘eaeuethes loqtiendi.’ ” (Laughter). The Prime Minister: “Caeoelhes serthondi,” isn’t it!*' Mr Wilford: No. “scribendi” refers to "writing,” “loqtiendi” to “speaking." The Prime .Minister: I am glad that ihe lion, gentleman knows some Latin. Laughter). .Mr Wilford: All Latin is Greek to you. (Laughter). The Prime .Minister: You know little Latin and less Hebrew. (Laughter).

Mr Willord: “He brews NX.” (Laughter). The Prime Minister: Don’t be personal.

Mr Willord: It was you who was personal. You started it. (Laughter). A LAItOCK DKFLXmOX. Castigating .Mr 11. At more (Xclosn) for what lie termed "Ids hysterical outburst against the Labour Party,” .Mr A. L. Mi hi tvitli (Wellington Mast) expressed suriirise at such an attack coming from an lion member “so harmless that lu* would not draw the blend of a young spring chicken.” Mr At more, he added, had said that Hie members of the Public Service should act constitutionally, but when had they done otherwise;' They had acted constitutionally throughout ; and the result was that they got, for example. C;t |:t- Id a week lor linesmen, or less than the Arbitration Court award for outside workers. HANK IXTKKKST.

The lion G. .1. Garland gave notice in the Legislative Council of his intention to move the following motion next Wednesday: "That, in the opinion ol this council legislation should lie passed requiring every hank authorised by law to issue notes in New Zealand upon the daily credit balances of their i-ust,outers at a rale not less than 2 per cent per annum. That the Government lie requested to take the subject of such legislation into its < on--ideratiou after the present session.” “TWO HALF-LEADERS.”

Replying to an attack by Mr L. M. Isitt ('Christchurch North) on the “Kxtrcme Labour Party" Mr H. E. Holland (Leader ol Lhe Labour Party) referred to the Leader of the Opposition. “I was going to call hint the lion gt-iitleman’s leader.” he said: * ‘lilt t tin is only the lion gentleman's lialf-li-ader. i Laughter). Hi- other hallleader is the lion the Prime Minister. Hut a - H*e lion member for Nelson (Mr Aimer..*) has just said. You cannot

-•ice lIUI masters.'" I.anghleri. “1 unli t t;iv which «»I thorn is S:it;ut. a,hied M.r Holland, amid renewed laughter, ''but I would warn the holt

gentleman that he cannot serve two masters; and that if he goes on trying. he may liitd himself in the other place.' ” t Laughter).