PARLIAMENTARY.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 October 1911, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

During the discussion on the constitution of the Legislative Council, Sir Joseph Ward found it necessary to point out how all our .Parliamentary procedure is designed to make progre&s slow, so as to enable the whole country to know whnt our public men are doing- As an illustration he cn".imera*;ed the different stages of a bill, and pointed out the numerous opportunities there are for what he called "cheeks."

Mr Massey, possible painful memories of "legislation by exhaustion" towards the close of a session, threw in tho interjection, "I hopo you will think of that in a few weeks from now ." Sir Joseph Ward said that doubtless it was said of himself at such times '"What a bullock driver he is" But, especially'at the end of a session, he had as much work to do as anyone,:and he had never, been exhausted, neither had he seen Mr Massey exhausted. He believed the only time'Mr Massev was ever exhausted was when he was trying to convince an outside audience that ho had been exhausted b\ such methods in Parliament.

"I hope at no very distant date to see the Friendly Societies wiped out altogether," declared the Hon J. Banin '.he Legislative Council on Friday. 110 admitted that the societies had done good work in the way of pioneering that the Government would not undertake, but held that, before vary much logger, the Government of every democratic country would recognise that it was work it must do itself. "They will never touch it," said the Hon. W. Beeham, Ah- Banrejoined that the pocieties had now reached the- limit of tho power they ought to Have.

The Goldf ields and Miues Commit.-,00 have recommended to the Government for favourable consideration the petition of Laura McKenua, for compassionate consideration on account of the death of her husband, "nho contacted pneumoconiosis whita workiug in the Waihi Company's batt«ry, and. who i-e----coived till his death a compas«ionai;allowance from the Company of £4 10 per week. The Committee recommonded.that the petitioner be allowed £50.

Mr Taylor presented a petition to th"l House this afternoon from J. B. Steedman and Sonp of Waikawau, Tapu, Thames, for conservation of their rights to certain kauri timber interests in the Waikawau Crock watershed, purchased by iho petitioners from the late Captain "W. 0. Piildy, and which have been challenged by tho Commissioner of Crown Lands. Auckland, sir.cc the purchase of the freehold of the land from the. natives by 'ho Crown.

' "The Crown law officers save tho •Government thousands of. pounds every year."-—The Hon. Mr. Millar.

If anyone ever com«s to me now and say they want to be put. on the justice ot the peace lisc, I advise them to go and join the Liberal and Labour Federation.''—Mr, Fisher.