LEGISLATION BY EXHAUSTION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9019, 5 December 1907, Page 2

LEGISLATION BY EXHAUSTION.

Press' Association. Auckland, December 4. During the course of an interview this afternoon upon tho subject of the native land legislation passed at the close of last session the Premier referred to the suggestion made that this and similar legislation had been preceded by the' commonly Known as3 e g isla tion by exhaustion. '•'J am reftUysurprised," he said, "at the' attempt to raise the cry of legislation by exhaustion bearing the meaning that the important measures of the session had been rushed through at the end of the session. No ono with any sense of fairness can say that a system of legislation by exhaustion was adopted in connection with any measure placed upon the Statute Book last- Session. I believe that Parliament should iie-ver sit after midnight, and I should be only too glud io see that carried out. To enablo ' that to ha done moaas that instead of sitting tlireo or four months, wo would require Parliament to sit for six months every year, and I recognise that that would be very inconvenient, for a great majority of the members—none of whom, as far as I am aware, bolong to the leisured class. They all haye private interests to ajbtohd to, and would thus be inconyenieuced, but the only clear solution of tho difficulty of preventing any accumulation of work at tho close of the session is to make an oarlior start, and sit to a later dato.''