PARLIAMENTARY.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 9 August 1911, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY.

state Forest reserves.

Upon the motion of Mr "Vernon Eeed, a return has been presented, showing the number of sections of ; Crown laud in tbe Bay of Islands electorate reserved for timber, ecenic State, forest and other purposes,, and are consequently not available for settlement. Snmmarised, the position is as follows:—Timber reserves 4fi,354 acres; scenic, 2399 acres; Slate forest, 54,692 acres j other purposes l 67 f GO9 acres kauri gum reserves) is as followsT--Mangonui County, j 13,543 acres; Hokianga, 15,951 acres i Bay of Is. lands, 12,838 acres; Whangarei, 995 acres ; and Whanguroa, .24 282 acres. ' STATE ENTERPRISE. More than one speaker in; the Address-in Reply debate in the House made reference to the extraordinary incroase m the price of butter that has taken place this winter. Mr. Lawry put it down to overexportation, while Mr. Poole ur^ed th<?t it was necessary to secure a guarantee that consumers would receive at reasonable prices what they required for their maintenance. The advocates of Stste competition— ' and he was one when monopolies existed— were amply justified in carrying on an agitation for a change in that directiou. PILING UP LEGISLATION. "The policy of the Government at the present time is one of masterly inactivity," oa.id Mr. Lawry in his Address-m Reply speech, "and the people of tfew Zealand should hail that iact with satisfaction, because if there is ono thing i n this world more to be deprecated than another it is the way we pile i, p legislation year after year. If th« L,fador of the Opposition would bring down a measure calculated to devote the whole of ono bossion to simplifying ami consolidating the measures al* ready m existence ho W ould have a tenure of of [ice that no other Premier had ever succeeded in obtaining » Mr Jewry's remarks were received with applause.. -

CHEAPER BUTTER WANTED:

Mr. Wright wants the Minister "of ■ V Customs to abolish the duty on i m ' ported butter on the ground that New Zealand prices are very mucu heavier than those quoted ia Australia If - the duty W eve removed choicest Australian butter could b 9 landed in the lJorainmaU/Oipcrpouai; It cost ß , ?^9^ alaili taotories to-day from j/2 to. 1/J per pound, lie says, Mr. >*, McLaren also looks for legislation to^X abolish the duty on-imported \budHL

MOItEINTENSE LAND PROBLEM

•xaaqmta satisfied that, in ton years we will come to the end of our public estate," remarked Mr B H be that we shall have an even fur. tier and more intense land problem and reduce the area, to give pHO p c an opportunity of geW on th« iandatalL'' b *°& th e