PEARLS FROM PARLIAMENT

Free Lance, Volume IV, Issue 168, 19 September 1903, Page 7

PEARLS FROM PARLIAMENT

A GREAT amount of rubbish was sold to the public of this country as patent medicines. — Sir J. G. Ward. * * * The increase in cancer cases was connected with the old demand for vacemaition — that they had forced filth into the people's veons, and now they were reaping the harvest of cancer, probably as the result of that folly.— Mr. Taylor. Strikmg-clocks uere all very well at a time when watches were not commonly worn; but to-day, when everybody was harnessed to a twelve-and-sixpenny watoh, there was no necessity for strik-ing-clocks. — Mr. Lewis. * * Out of twenty fire insurance companies there are only six that have their headquarters in New Zealand. We are simply playing into the hands of the foreigner, and the. sooner the game is put a stop to the better.— Mr. Hogg, on State fire insurance. * * * In Sydney, when the bubonio plague broke out, it cost the City Counoil £22,000 for catching rats alone.— Sir J. G. Ward. * * * There had been no plague there, or, at least, the only plague they had ever had in Auckland was the plague of experts. — Mr. Witheford. » • • With reference to occupations generally, I am sure every honourable member in this House must have reoeived at least half-a-dozen applications from young ladies for each position, that is obtainable in the Government service. — Mr. Graham. * * *• I speak of the Maori side of the question, and I can also speak of the pakeha side of the question — our Churches do not exercise- sufficient force to try to keep back the young people who are brought up in their respective Churches from the temptations that the other side say exist. — Mr. Heke. * * * I am very sorry to see that an apparent inclination exists on the part of some young women in New Zealand to go in for school-teaching, or into factories, and shops, and offices, rather than keep the house and understand cooking. — Mr. Witheford. * * * And then to talk about the looks of the young women behind the bars. Why, what does the draper do , and what does the confectioner do ? Do they not want some one to go behind the counters who has good looks? And I undertake to say that the same thing applies with boys and men, and that boys have lost positions because they were not smart and good-looking enough. — Hon. J. McGowan. * * * I have myself sent in hundreds of applications to Sir Joseph Ward for positions in the Telephone and Post Office Department, from young flomen. — Mr. Rutherford. * * The colonial youth is practical and sober, but he is not a chivalrous youth. — Mr. Major. If the honourable gentleman (Mr. Ell) were to go through the streets of Glasgow on a Saturday nia;ht he would see there is more reason there to further the prohibition movement than in this country. — The Premier.