POLITICAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 79, 24 April 1901, Page 2

POLITICAL.

ME. SYME3, M.H.R., AT l/RUTI. ]

(fliOM OUtt OWN COKKESPOMBMT Tun sutrlors Ind an oopor'unity of I tuuii'ing mi address from Mr. K)?me3 on i W-dnoday opening, this 17th. M>. j A.10.1 was vole! to the ch;ui" Aft'irj rofemrg to the closing of the cautury and thn death of the Queen Mr. Syme.s, iu beginning his address, explained liow eichyeav the swsions were getting i longer and the members had more work ! to do as the necessities of tin people increase. The number of Oornmittees ■ inoraass and ho do the n'lrube? of pstitionn.' The sp?ak.ir said lie had oftea been asked why do*s the Ilou'e sit at night; and wont on to explain that the Committee business was done during the day. FAIR REST BILL. This Bill was not wanted and it was uous9 piling up tho Statute B:>ok with iik des3 measures, lie would not iatarferi with leaseholds, but whit mighti havo to bo done would bo tho repurchase of the 999 yaars lexaes by tho i Government. PENNY POSTAGK. Thiß Bid he opposed as one of the worst Tory measures, No more letters wuul.l bo written by tho miss of the people and only town people would benefit to any extent. LOCAL GOVERNMENT. The system of local Government is as ancient as Noah. A Lic<il Government B 11 has t-3 be face!, but it ia one of tho things Governments don't like to tackle. The speaker gave it as a d'rect warning that if the electot'j dj not fight to have the officials kept in their places thay, tho civil servant*, will rule everything. Local bodies should have an engineer, s?nt by the Government, when they wanted roads, etc., laid off. Loans should not lie paid off. There was no necessity for it. Why should we piy to maka roads, etc., for futursj generations ; them •ilso cmtributQ. to tho work wo had d.>a«.

EGMONT NATIONAL PARK BILL. A sanitoriuin on Egmunt for the cure of tuberculosis would ha 0,10 of the grandest assets and biggost sources of interest to Taranaki aud the calouy generally. INCBKISE OP MEMBERS AND THEIR ALLOWANCES. He opposed this Bill, not thit hi thought th< y got enough, but if men would no; do the work for the money they should icsign, and as long as there wag a mile of road or a bridge to be made he would oppose it, but as it was the Jaw of tbe land he took his .£4O Bnd gave it to the poor ; put it in his own pcoket.

, KOXIOJS WI3ED3 DILL. ' Wecd-i w<tj increasing, and tho sooner the thing was faced the better. It was easy to go round with a spiaying pump and kill blickberries or any weed.

ItATING ON UNIMPEOVED VALUE,

Every time you pay a rate on i m proved value you paid on industry, Everyone should vote against it.

LAND ADMINISTItATION,

People going oo the land «dded so much more to the wealth of the colony. i Roaming is not going on fas-, enough • wo don'r, wint roads in 40 years, we want the-u now. Settlers in the back country made 'he towns, and to compensate th'Mn they should hava tailways or metilled ro.ids. Tho Land Boards wwa ant ; quat:d and fossilised ■ the f>ys*em is wrong, and in rr,o*t ca-cs the Boaul consisted of thra Commissioner. All Boards should be electa '. The speaker had not htanl f,f a s'mglu case whera one Grown tenant ia Taranr ki had had a reba'e of rent, but in the Wellington province all could have it. He hi iraed the Commissioner, and there was bound to bo a vov, ovc-r this. Land should be given on any tenure ou wkii-h a person lik;d to lake it up, as they earn nil rhey get off tfce land. Mr. .Syraes here stated that thousands of pounds ia his ekctoiute werocredited t;> Mr. Lu'ng. NATIONAL EDUCATION. Is wa< a farce to c.ill if. national educitii-n; different buoks were ns )d ia di(l'in>..t district-. Etury ft-milo tocher should have tho same pay as a man if sin coald do thn sttme work. (J.:pitati'in tho'.ild be double tha am'jiint in tlin country t ) what it is in the towns.

QUPKTtOMS. ' In passing tee Crown Tenants Rebiteof UynS JJil 1 , why wa* i-, lefc to the discretion of the Commissioners. Caws were given \vhto applicants were pu", oil'from time to time, and then at list told they were too Ve in applying, Wa-i In in favour of mote country repr seubtioo on tiie New P.yaiouUi lla-hinr Board? Mr .S.mos thought «»'>■ wore woll repr .sento I, ho hud ashed the 0 n-ernment to giyo the re-p-<se;ita'km whaio the largest portion of rates ci mo from. No inemboi- en the Board should be nominated (a yoic-) especially nftir baing injected by th<> people. Did he know anything abcii 1 , the promised miU of milling on tin main ro,d ? Tuo Ch-iinnan here e.\pl>i-icd to Mr Symes that iostoad of t.ha ,£ t'or,£ being given, n |,„ Minister had aiitho'i-ol th> Commissioner to do a mile. Mr iSym<s cmld not siy any'hii'g about this matter but s'imeooe s.i t ;g.-st.> I th.,t tin conditions ia the] speu.tic.ti i lis kbit, made s>i stringent teat udwdy would t. iuUr Mid the ' GoI I'uruiftt'iit. •:id no', w.int to Kputirf 'ho | money. The Lota! Body unn get th-.iij ■ '•onti'iiots lvc mid 'he v.ork done. J n answer to further quesions, Mr Syines stated he was n;it m favour of the £400,000 being spent, on lUf.mtio. Mote fhonld have boon spf.nt on ro;ds ■'.Ld bridge and if n<co:-suy a l.irgjr cent ibi.diou made to the Jmp.ri.-d Nary, Ho was opposed to joining in tli-> .Au-tr.dian C< nuvmi.wedih. Amtrain, tides fi3 , fu .t!y w ], llt h ), O Willlts n»m us now an i no m<ae, we hid no h'ng t:> pain. After oho u ,nal vot-s of th uks ,-md r.ulid.iicii, etc., the meeting t.nuirati d.