Political Notes.
Captain iifcussell had Quoted a case in which a man employed by him had spent £63 in a drunken bout, a a Bam sufficient to have laid the fonndation for an old age pension. "What greater argument could you have in favour of giving pansion? in cases of that sort, ?" asked Mr Ward who followed. "Why that man contributed no less than £30 to the revenue in one act I"— Times
The Premier was in sore trouble Offer his Eight Hours Bill the other Bight. He was told plainly that if he wished to make eight hours the legal day in all private establishment in the colony he must first begin by adopting the eight hours lystem in the Government Departments. The committee followed it up by inoluding in the Bill the Government Printing Office, the Bailway Department, &c. Finally the Premier seemed to think that he was getting much more of the Eight Hours system forced upon him than he liked and he agreed to report progress on the Bill.
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Manawatu Herald, 7 December 1897, Page 3
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173Political Notes. Manawatu Herald, 7 December 1897, Page 3
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