NATIONAL ENDOWMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 1 November 1907, Page 2

NATIONAL ENDOWMENTS.

PASSED BY THE LOWER HOUSE. Per Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday. Xhe Premier uiovtd the third reading of the National Endowment BiU this, evening. . 4.^l*^ Mr Massey, speaking to the motioni said Ministers were getting into the bad habit of simply moving the third reading of Bill* without explaining them. This was the third of the Land Bills, and was the worst. He characterised the Bill as a hypocrite and a political fraud. He contended the Bill was introduced by the Government at the b.dding of an insignificant body of leaseholders, and at the bidding of' the Government Parliament had passed it Into law. Many of the freehold members had supported the Bill, but ha was pleased to say/there were' excep. tions who had adhered to their wi£ ciples. *

Hon. J. A. Millar said Mr Massey's speech was a repetition of hia second reading speech, with the addition that he characterised the BUI as a fraud. Ha would soon see whether the country regarded the measure as a fraud or not. In defending the leasehold system, he instanced a case at Dannevlrke, where, "* en U . e t w " Awing along a road he was pointed out land on either sidl reehod aufcleasehold respecS. jfi state and the leasehold highly cultivate

Mr James Allen said that, when these Book the remaining lands in the Smrth shuid available for «J ««* land* fh.< PUTChaSe WOUU b0 W»tU«M lands that no one would take up me«ure! UrenSOn Btl '° ***** »• rej£ fUrtllßr dUcußßion . «**«**« voteto^f a third «» iy ; 2o' votes to 16, and passed. J&Jflr* G - AU<m ' ****<*• BarFisher, Gray, ainan, Heke, Hornby? Kidd, Laurenson, Lawry, McGowan , McPherson, Millar, Nmtte, pSlte' Poland, Poole, SeJdonf StaUwoX' Noes (16)-Bollard, GrahaV f JMW UI 7.30, to-night, V- '* a3O n - m ' nn *