PEARLS FROM PARLIAMENT

Free Lance, Volume III, Issue 111, 16 August 1902, Page 22

PEARLS FROM PARLIAMENT

IF the School Committees kept in stock a suppl\ of- maibles, tops, and hoops theie would be less tiuancy — Mr Fisher ->■ ' Mr. Hall-Jones How mam men had they in this so-called standing aimv 9 Mr. Piram — We lnue a deuce of a lot of officers * -*■ "^ The Payment of Membeis Bill, which mci eased the payment of membeis of the Council was passed through all its stages in five minutes — Mr Hogg ■y- - An Hon. Membei --Ha\o you a fieehold yourself? „ Mr. Flatman. — I shall have a (> x 2 the same as yourself some day, perhaps. Mr. Ell said he w as anxious that the Legislative Council, as far as they could make it, should be a revising body, and that it should be stripped of the - ower of veto They did not want in the Upper Chamber ail sorts of old fossils, men whose qualification was that they had done a little pettifogging business for the party in power.— Mr. Lang. Is it wise to employ all the members of one family in the service of the Government, or whether it would not be advisable more widely to distribute Government patronage —Mi Geo Fisher is saicastic. But it was well known that slums were perpetuated in cities because the ground landlord could exact heavy rents from overcrowded hovels in neglected and insanitary thoroughfares. — Mr. Hogg. At the Pohonui school the gentleman who teaches and his wife and family are living 1 m tents, and at this season of the year, too, because, although there is a schoolhouse for the children, there is no residence for the teachers.— Mr. Haselden..^ Mr. Hornsby — The Wairoa branch of the Farmer's Union passed this resolution "That at the coming elections support he given to the candidate who can o-et the most roads and bridges for the dist.net." There is a tip for Sir William Russell. Sir W. R. Russell.— Good-bye. * # * Mr. Hutcheson suggested they should advertise for a leading counter-hand with a knowledge of small goods to fill the position of Agent-General But was it not playing the game low down when they expected the Agent-General to hawk mutton and tinned rabbits round the slums of London ? * * * Mr. Hornsby. — But there must be a limit of area, or otherwise you will have the old game going on again, of the men making their land freehold, and some one coming along and mopping it up till it is one huge piece, and the Government having to buy it up again. An Hon. Member. — We have heard that before. * * ♦ Personally, he would prefer to see no second Chamber at all. If there was no second Chamber, members of the House would be more impressed with a sense of their responsibility, and w T ould not vote against their consciences in this Chamber in order that a measure might be reiected in the other House. — Mr. Napier. They heard of the* difficulty there was of getting a shilling out. of the Government for the purpose of helping the education of the children, and he believed thosie complaints were well founded ; but they did not find any difficulty in getting tens of thousands of pounds to keep up the ridiculous system of a standing army. — Mr. Hornsby. * * # He did think it inconsistent for the Hon. the Native Minister to be always wearing a huiai feather in his hat . It was encouraging a bad practice which had grown up in the colony of shooting the huia. His example was making the wearing of huia feathers fashionable. Those beautiful birds were fast disappearing, and in a very short time there would not be one left. He horjed the honourable gentleman would discontinue using tine huia feather. — Mr.

"If he letainod the piesent title he Now, I do not at all object to attendshould have added the woids A Bill to ing a cheerful funeral, even though I enable children to absent themsehes may be peufoiming one of the principal from school in 01 dei to milk the cows'" parts myself, but at least I would like —Sardonic suggestion tiom Mi Tanner to claim some consideration for the seifor an addition to the shoit title of Mi vices rendered by the dear departed.— Willus' School Attendance Bill Hon Di Grace.