WELLINGTON TOPICS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1929, Page 2

WELLINGTON TOPICS

.■; '/DAY^GftT,%VlifCf.- : /-. • TaROUGaA'raK; HQljsk /. > , ■ ■- .’>• , .'i i',. ■?}. i ; (Special' - ?>v v TJie passage ' through the ~.]|ou the copiproprise pi*. ting half an-hopr.fC ing brought about; j .spijiothipg - unanimity ’ apaqlig 'iis' the. Bill wafi -lßiCojjmiiftee,' W, H'./M'*. Ca'mpbeli, the pienibejrjfoj’ mwfcftfPS moved, an of - tl)re ; -’. abort ptle olf the with "4 'yiew tp malcinfi; J the half-hour v of qperative thropgHout th^'jear,; a | a latef ‘ stage 'Mr ■ member for WelHngtfih'Shburhs; litoVy •o 4 for .tjia cloch ; Tp/be 'ftdvap^l l ;: fy; an hour for the these proposal?; ed by, i over-whelming , P* Hon. T. M. ice, who ,was in thftrgf 'qlP Biilf-let it he know, that 1 hnf departiare; froiu its provision? ihe abandonment of 'tbft ‘ra&Murm' - jf. is being •:asßi»rood''tK^|f l tiwatioji would have iftOre,: largely Shppdrtr, ed. • - L t ' V.? i 'v-4 Time hsingihg ; ;hflgy.ily,-«ppn , Rf !««s»] tlj© Legi*l£rtivi r ;:Cotfnt)il v.<‘'attention r; tfr ■ M £gM?.' ment. : v 1 ■* ‘provide 'Vfffy ! ' quaHfiedpersbM, p&pjiirQyedy ; Minister, for 'balp ftiV haiilf. ipft : pne ,oiv •; two days in.each WoekiV,€The, Bill is franied in some meiiihfo'ajoiig .the lin-? *'• es on ithe PNelson gysteriy”’ Whiph.itj. so frequently quoted .by both, parties, to • the'' Bible-reading controversytiftt Sir James Alteh haf gi^h his'i intention to; move ih,committee an atnendment which, if parried ,Would take the Bill'practically out of flie bands 6f its auchor. Rojbei’t Hon. J... ; Mr Thomson;sHprpPf#:l?4€ : ' B^# ; - and barrel, and ly against the' ut illustrating the beribficiiu juffuenbejs "pf\ the present Robert." ety of 'the day , -, ; ,ioiv,id%sMpsT- ■<■ ’ The' gentleman, who . signs himself “Dominion phajttnap^'oi Political lElar(y|f : er lengthy letter' tp Which, after chhfitisihf*,sss§': of his organisation who; Ti|ftye deprecated his meihod?, he reiterates hia .Qwh" ideals;, Jfc bnf, any one thing be;wrltesf ’ ‘ihftt keeps me in politics, and 'thnfc is a d© - ■sire for - good governnient of the' popple of this Dominion; The United j Par|y and'its.pabinet.are atpwsent'oh,Mall and if,.they make good LAm i .' the electors will,not if .tp-.'retein-' they ; are 'O- - fee .dragged at' tlj© . chftribt^; Labour, ,i suggesi-Ch'ii.t' jfoo*|er. .. mapdP'te is sought ' from the people. IKe, better jit .Will he. fdr them. '- After all, . political desire, and. thatvis better igdyir - . ernmeiit and not parties. Thpy will .succeed in- obtaining their desir.e even if it means a readjustment of the prer sent position. “ A generous . Press finds space for a column of these, heroics. , • . :

- : • RAILWAYS. -o. ’. bu At the meeting of. the Wellington •, 89 Chamber of Commerce this Week the fl i Chairman, expressed surprise that the Government should contemplate additional burdens upon the taxpayers. ’He sympathised with- the General Manager and his staff, he said, who had an extremely difficult job .in hand, competing with motor cars and motor /lorries, and now were to nave another huge task thrust upon their shoulders.' 1 Mr Salmond is not an ardent political ally and / his opinions must carry • weight; but Mr S. A. Longuet, one.of W'ellihgtoh’s leading business men, taking up the thread of the chairman’s remarks suggested another side to the story. He thought, lie said, that the ’railways would pay-were they run on strictly commercial lines. If concessions were made to one section df the community and -another, involving the supply of transpoik at much less than cost; however, there was bound to be a. loss at the end of each succeeding year. Mr Longuet’s audience was not 'unimpressed. - '