Session Incidents Queries and Asides

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 400, 14 July 1928, Page 1

Session Incidents Queries and Asides

lUE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, To-day. -The debate in the House of Representatives on the Address-in-Reply motion came to an end last evening, ODDosition leader's amendment £ine defeated by 48 votes to 14. Mr. H Atmore, Nelson’s Independent, voted «Hth the Labour Party. %-he House rose at 9.30 p.m. until 2.30 pm- on Tuesday. Headmasters’ Salaries A plea for better salaries for the headmasters of primary schools was made bv Mr. J. A. Nash, who quoted specific cases to show that headmasters of many of the large schools were paid be low the maximum rate for their trades. He hoped the education boards would ultimately be abolished. “Call us Bolsheviks" “Who said so?” asked Labour members when Mr. J. A. Nash said that the original Labour Party had associated itself with the Soviet of Russia, -ilso they had said that they would carry the brand of revolutionary Socialism. A Voice: Rubbish. Another: They call us Bolsheviks. Mr. Nash: I might not be far wrong. X believe inwardly that some of them are, but they have been putting on the soft pedal lately. Many Colours “The Opposition at present,” said Mr. R. A. Wright, ‘‘reminds me of Joseph's coat of many colours. Red for Labour, white for Mr. Veitch, that is innocence and purity, yellow for Mr. Forbes, that is disappointment. Lastly there was pink for Mr. Atmore. Such an Opposition cannot hope to injure the Government at the coming election.” Bible in Schools The Religious Exercises in Schools controversy is brewing. Yesterday Mr. R. P. Hudson (Motueka) gave notice of his intention to move an amendment to Mr. H. Holland’s projected Bill. The Right to Work Mr. P. Fraser, who already has the Unemployed Workers’ Bill on the stocks, yesterday gave notice of another piece of corrective legislation, the Right to Work Bill. Usually these Labour efforts, which are not unfamiliar in recent political history, are forlorn hopes. Exodus ‘Has the Prime Minister noted that a record number of people left New Zealand permanently last year?” asked Mr. J. A. Lee (Auckland East). The tiguro quoted by Mr. Lee was 4,145. which gave him the opportunity to moralise regarding unemployment and other evils which lie considers are making the country untenable. Who Knows Why? There was an echo of a familiar soldiers’ marching song in a sepulchral answer from the back benches when Mr. V. PI. Potter asked, rhetorically, why the Government did not give 16s a day to relief workers. ‘‘God only knows,” murmured the voice from the back. Mr. Potter went on to say that for six years ho had been advancing a plan to cure unemployment, and he thought perhaps the Government might now adopt it. “After six years!” sang Labour voices in incredulous chorus. From the Antipodes ■^ r ‘. Lowe, clerk of Parliaments at Wellington, who is handling the arrangements for the departure of the New Zealand delegation to the Empire Parliamentary Conference in Canada, has vivid memories of a visit he himself paid to Montreal, one of the cities the delegation will visit. Mr. Lowe was in Canada two or three yeai's ago. and a Montreal daily signalised his arrival there with these headlines, hung boldly across its pages: “Antipodean Clerk of Parliaments on Visit to Montreal.’ * Treatment of Tuberculosis In answer to Sir. W. Glenn (Rangritikei), who asked yesterday when the e Port of the commission appointed to investigate tuberculosis treatment be read y> the Minister of Plealth, *• on ' J - A - Young, said the investoUtion was not being conducted by a commission, but by a committee of floctors pi aced on the s t a ff G f the eaitn Department for the purposes of owing them to make the exhaustive inquiry deemed desirable. “As far hn * know,” said Mr. Young, “they , v ? e n °l yet delivered their report. • nen they do so, it will be placed bef°re the House.” Ajlin the Government” In spite of their vigorous denuncia- . ~s °t the Government during the adress-in-Repiy debate, Messrs. Ran- - m and 1 eitch both voted with the amZZ' ment on the no-confidence amendment. In this they followed the "m. , hst Party’s well-worn line of tn7'l ent ) ° n! >- Mr. Atmore, an Inlinj 3 ’ VOtCd with the Labour “Pahiatui” ti U n™ d i tp . though he may be on ques’i lnd set tlement. on which he il r T \S d at some length yesterday aritv' "-Hamilton betrays unfamiliCd ZZ at least well known rate* h . th< ? Maorl tongue. At any Pahiatu a ln vt Sted r, yesterday on calling ‘Tahiit ’ ! ‘ Hansom's electorate. tte end 6 ’ N aS thoush aB ‘' i ” wer<? fellow ad ‘ am °unt of advice from this 'members would sway him from should Pronunciation: but then. what ota a Scotsman know of Maori? innocents Abroad land l nn S T, b i y o.’ e Aoran Sl from Auckto the y 31 ’ the sel ected delegates ation’s Parliamentary AssociNortherr, wonderful tour of the great see at a “"minion, which they will nor e v t- o tlme of neither extreme heat Wheat '. 0 ™ 0 cold ' with the ripening ing inn<>■ i e » rain -firrowingr belt touchNew ,! eap ; ues of country to gold. T tv VT,‘ and s delegates are Messrs. Jordan W ' Nosworthy, TV. J. Opotiki d T i he Ho . n ' J - B - °ow, of Quebec' „ . he Party will meet at later Trill 25, an v d two days of r... ‘I st ? rt a comprehensive tour interes t ;n°, UChi nf at all points of the m travelling expenses, from tljpi °ment when the delegates leave iho, r ,J eside nces, are being borne by Canadian Government.