PARLIAMENT.
The result of the recent divisions in the House on the Imprest Supply Bill should settle any doubt in the mind of the public as to the improbability of an early election. The united forces of the opposition clearly indicated that the Government can carry on for the remainder of the session.
Both Houses sal to-day and it is expected that the Addrcss-iii-Reply debate will lie commenced to-mor-row.
Says yesterday’s N.Z. Tinnjs:— “The Labour Leader’s amendment, intercepting the Imprest Supply Bill on Friday was transparent humbug, 'fhc amendment bubbled over with sympathy for practically the whole Civil Service, for after the subtraction of all ranks drawing up to £SOO a year very few are left to think about. The mover and hi.s supporters babbled about hardships and privations, about starvations and despairs, until the air was thick with the misfortunes of a huge body of men subjected to (lie wanton t.ryannv of a rue] management. The hardships and despairs of; £SOO a year! What a touching lamentation over abject: poverty! How liarrowing (lie spectacle conjured up of civil servants crawling to their offices in the last stage of inanition, to spend their wroking days longing for food, and deploring the lack of shelter against the pitiless elements for their nearest and dearest! How dreadful the cruelty of a soulless Government wallowing in a huge surplus wrenched from the necessities of a most deserving, enduring, suffering class, tehir country’s pride I What grief in the hearts of Labour’s generous representatives! “J]n\\ different quite recently the ione oi these generous lovers of their neighbour! Once upon a time j 1 '. -e philanthropists had no time IW fh> wean-rs of the black coat, r.nd the immaculate white collar. The whole service then was rife with Voting. The people now so downtrodden, then used to spend their office hours, not in hungers and lament a I ion-;. bet. in keeping a fixed staie on the office clock praying for knock-off fiinr. And not infrequently there was dodging out on pretence of business which led ibirsfy
souls ii! the direction of the public house or I tie club, where the craving for the knock-off hour could be atiinod by cool drinks and fiery critieism of the superior veterans lagging superfluous ou the stage, keeping i lie reall.s superior people from deserved and desired promotion. What is to-day the chapter of woes used then to lie grouped under the heading of "Government: stroke.” Those were the days of righteous denunciation by upright patriots, zealous for their country’s good. Mow we, are in the days of sensitive philanthropists, with brains on lire and hearts all bleeding.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2752, 1 July 1924, Page 3
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440PARLIAMENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2752, 1 July 1924, Page 3
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