PARLIAMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 28 July 1891, Page 2

PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF REPRfeSBNTMri^ES.

FRIDAY, JULY 24. „ . r The House met at .p P m.i „„[ ■ The Minister of Education' said thaj) he did not intend to amend the Education Act this sesiori by Ituting the working for* the stitetf average. . The Payment of Memhei* !Bill^i& introduced and read a firstlame. , Mr Fisher resumed the debate 1 on the second reading of the Land ' Bill* He did. not, he said, see' any 1 merit in the " one-majpiv^pne run/y principle. He kpew of manjrpeo^le who would refuse to take up s land ' if they could not acquire th^ .^eeholi and he considered that ths casii paymsnts with improvements was an Attempt to prevent peoplf'iialn^a'utt land. He should nave muchi pleasure, therefore, in,. supporjimg, .'.tiie 1 amendment to be' proposed by M? G< Hutohinspn.; ... ,

:.. , Mr- Hoag, Dr Newman, Messrs ' l&pa, Rees, O'Connor also Spoke. Mr G. Hutchinuon, who said ho represented ft typical settlement district (Waitotara) moved an amend, merit as follows : — "That the proposal to create a State tenantry by granting leases from the Crown by parpetuity without the option of pur- • chase is a change opposed to the beat' interests of the Colony." The policy enunciated in the Bill was a one, as he had always it was. If' the Minister could I'flpoiht to the public desire for such a Change he' would withdraw the v ; amendment, but no such evidence had been brought forward. , The Bill w;a.s an >ttempt to force on the Colony a change of policy under the ■-, ; suggestion that we have not perpetual leases, when, as a matter of „ fact, perpetual leases are already in existamw. As to individual landlordism, the effects of that system as he knew ifc gave no justification for the change proposed. The right of freehold was a most important element of success in land settlement and he could , not believe future ■ settlers woul prefor to be constantly Sunder the supervision of rangers, in.jspectp^i, ar^4- Ministers, and there • ' ' W4s J no"dQlibiihe present Minister of , Lands Woujd seek to promote settleh -' jhk^p^tM d^ec^an of his real per- ',: petiial lease holds to the exclusion of 1> ■ all other systems of tenure. . , ' - Messrs Pinkerton, '• . Mackenzie, "' Sir G. Gr^y, Oi tt. Mills, Buckland, ., ij.^^Tnp^ajispn,. ill, Thoinpsqn also spoke. ":./(",';':. '"■■. •"'■".".'_ '' ' ' ■ : • , . Sip John Hall at 12. 30 mov^d the i adjournment of the debate, which - was objected to by the Premier. . ; i^t 2so strangers were excluded i and the othe other proceedings were left unreported.