POLITICAL NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 609, 5 November 1913, Page 5

POLITICAL NOTES.

EX-CONSTABLE'S PETITION

The M to Z Petitions Committee reported to the House on the petition of ex-Con3table Charles Gordon Smyth, of Oamaru, for reinstatement in ihe Police Force <: No recommendation" is the verdict of the committee, which the House endorsed without discussion.

MR WILSON ON AGGP.EGATON. In speaking on the Land Bill in tne House, Mr Wilson claimed that the Government had solved the most important pari of the land problem by giving the right to the freehold. It was necessary, however, to give easier term 3 to induce settlement. Risks had to be taken, but the Premier was trying honestly to assist the to get on the ' I with the Premier on the reagg.ss .ion question," went on Mr Wilson, who expressed the conviction that a penal clause was the only way out of the difficulty. Unless a penal clause were provided lor, reaggregation would continue, A P.OAD LIABILITY". Delegates cf local bodies upon whom will fall the burden of the cost of the new Hutt road waited on the Premier on Monday aiternoon to ask what the Government intended to pay as .its share. Ths Mayor of Petone remarked that his council could not possibly meet its allocation, and ihe Government might have to put in an official receiver. Mr Massey said a new commission might be aopointed. which would consider fresh facts and decica what proportion the local bodies snould pay. He promised to bring the matter before Cabinet in the near future. THE WAluraJ RAILWAY. A Waiuku deputation waited on the Hon. Mr Fraser on Monday morning, and urged prosecution of a branch railwav line to W&iukc. The Prime Minister introduced the deputation. Mr Fraser pointed out that trial surveys had already been made via Patumahoe, one to Pserata, the other to Pukekohe, ana explained tnat a further survey was now being made with tha object of discovering if ihe route could be shortened and an injurious intersection of farms avoided. He said he could afford no explanation re garding financial provisions for tne line till the Public Works Statement was brought down. Other iines had to be considered, but the Waiuku line would not be forgotten. He ncpsd to make some provision icr the line.