Pearls From Parliament

Free Lance, Volume VI, Issue 269, 26 August 1905, Page 16

Pearls From Parliament

THE Government treat membeis as enemies, and act as though they owned the vouchers and public recordls. — Mr. Taylor. * • * He had sufficient confidence in Ministers to believe that they would not do a wrong to any men in New Zealand. — Mr. Hogg does not now belong to the "New Liberal" Party. • « * It always appeared to him that a Liberal Minister of Lands was not considered fit for his position unless he had acquired a perfect contempt for Courts of Justice, and claimed! a perfect right to speak of them < in language of contempt. — Mr. Lewis. * * * I also support the resolution that has been moved and seconded with respect to the late Hon. Mr. Taiaroa. Good health to you and prosperity to you, Mr. Speaker ; and good health to you, honourable gentlemen, '—The Hon. Mahxita T. P. te Wherowhero. • • • To be of any value, "Hansard" should not be stale and unprofitable— it should be printed as expedhtiously as possible. The fault lay entirely with members. — Mr. Hogg. *• * * He had known some weeks, when he ■was in the Government Printing Office nearly thirty years ago, when he would draw as much as £7 per week for members' alterations. — Mr. Jennings. » * * It was well known that the suggestion for that Mapourika trap, to the Islands first came from the Opposition, side of the House. — The Hon. Mr. Hall-Jones. ■X * * The only true principle of taxation is that each man should pay in proportion to the benefit that he receives— in proportion, to the value of the service which he receives from the State ; and if tihat is admitted, then I euibmit that the only fair system of apportioning local taxation is in proportion to the value which daoh individual in the community receives from the public services. — Mr. G. Fowlds. # # He did not care whether a man bought his land or leased' it, if it rose in valne — even though he never put an axe in it to dear the bush or burned the bush — if he had taken it up in a bona fide manner he was entitled to whatever increment was given to the land, even although that increment might have been given by improved conditions or owing to good legislation that had been passed. — Mr. MoLachlan.

A claim was' made on one occasion by a landlord against an individual who happened to call on .him and get a meal. Boiled eggs were served up for hib breakfast, and lie went away forgetting to pay for them. Year* aiteirwaids, the consumer ol the meal being in. good dirouiii6fcaitioe& J the landlord proceeded against him. He had a clever lawyer to allocate his case, and he claimed not the value of the eggs or of tihe breakfast, but brought in a huge bill for the chickens and the produce of the chaiekenis and the mimiber of fowls that would liave multiplied if the eggs had been hatched instead of being cooked.— Mi . Hogg. Last session he complained more than oince about a menageri© that was kep+ at the back of Parkament Buald/ings— poultry, disreputable) sheen, and a most disreputable-Looking elderly white horse. The Minister for Railways then promised that these animate, which were kept far disease experimental purposes, should be removed to Wallaceville, where the experiments couldl^ be continued in the buildina; erected there by the Government. Tttvs piramfce had not apparently been kept. He had lately seen a peculiar-looking horse prowling round the teiuias-ground. He had watohed it from a distance, as it was too dangerous to- go near. — Mr. Moss.