Page 2 Advertisements Column 5

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 265, 24 December 1903, Page 2

W 'llls new hoolk, Peeps at Parliament," Mr H. W. Ldicy expresses the belief that the main fotndaition of the position t)he House of Cornmans ho I'd s among tl>e Parliaments of the world is its condition of volunteered unremimei'ative service. "In spite of sheers from disappointed or fliinpaint persons, a seat in the House of Commons still remains one of the highest prizes o>f citizen life. When membership becomes a business bringing in, say, £6 a week, the chasm will be gone. As things stand, there is no reason why any constituency desiring to do so may not return a member on the tenns of paying- him a salary. It is idone in several cases, in two at least, with the happiest results. It wound be a different thing to throw the whole place open with shrnlding advertisements for eligible members, at a sahirv of £3OO a year paid tmailorly. The hoard of impecunious and busybodles attracted by such a bait would trample down the class of men who compose the present House of Commons, and who are in various ways at touch with all the multiform interests of the nation."-