POLITICAL POINTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81845, 12 September 1906, Page 2

POLITICAL POINTS.

HOW ESTATES INCREASE. Some examples of how aggregations of holding s have happened within his own experience were given by the member for Masterton the «her day. Mr Hogg said that in his district some years ago a man took up a holding of 260 acres under the Act of 1592. Soon afterwards lie secured the transfer of an education reserve of 300 acres, then of a small grazing run of good land (1000 acres), and subsequently two areas of 200 and 200 acres each, mak ing the total acquired in a fewyears 2020—0n- quite enough for ten homesteads, in Mr Hogg's opinion. There was also the case of vhe son of an EngKsh clergyman, who he thought was an absentee at the present time. This settler started with a section of 640 acres, and then acquired holdings of Soo 100, 345, and iSo acres, totalling 2065 acres. Yet another man bought out six small settlers, leaving six empty cottages, and he new has 1200 acres, every acre being good for farming.

PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS. A Pr°P°s of preference to unionists, Mr Hemes has given notice to ask

for a return showing—(l) The number of awards under- the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act in force on the 31st March, 1906; (2) the number of awards in which preference to unionists is granted, giving the particular trades in which preference is granted, and the condtions under which it is granted; (,) the.number of awards i n which ''. Terence has been refused.

M ODERN QUACKS AND MOD ERN FOOLS.

The debate on the Quackery and Other Frauds Prevention Bill last week was made interesting with some striking illustrations of how the modern quack unloads his goods on the unsuspecting innocent and consistently bleeds him of his hard-eara-eTcash tT 1 SCn , era ,* lc ™V.W ed cash. Ihe methods of the worst class were also referred to in both circulars from proprietors of cure. severe reely quoted. "Consumpv ? !?n, e I r ,f lsted antl Permanently cured » "Medical science revolutionised » and other catch phrases from pale pink> blue and *, n Tl fp ed around the chamber, the Premier was particularly emphatic m his denunciation of the frauds and w ho arc living in luxury at the present time at the expense of credulous people. He had no hesitation in saying- that some of the concoctions brought into the colony were used for the purpose of committing murder. The Bill passed its second reading after having reSthSus t e heUnanimoUSaPPr °-