LET JUSTICE BE DONE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 299, 14 December 1908, Page 4

LET JUSTICE BE DONE.

-Ml!. RUTHERFORD O-N .UK. MeNAB.I • MOST HEINOUS OF LYINC. '' CHARGES." 1 Christchuivh. Saturday. -Vr. A. U. liutherlord, ex-ii.l'., I wi.le-.to Cue l.ylleHou Tillies: •1'- seem- l„ me ihat .Mr. McNab has uvu most unjustly treated l.y ; , »„« of ins poltical opponents in'eouncetioi with .tiie dairy regulations. The fads are that me. iialry industry has grown to such a nia--ii;i'udo that'the existing regulations i,,,i,:r,d material uincnumt'iit. The Jj.-pii L!ii-.-;ii ~f Agriculture approved and t0..:, [!,.. .nutter iu hand. New regulations \u c- dialled on lines suggested by that Department and in due course were presented to the House. Mr. MeXab, following the usual c 0,, .5 (.. moved (hat they be re'erred to the Agri eultural, I'astoral and Stock Committee. It was.the function of that committee not Mr McN'ab, to revise the regulations. A mass of evidence was given before the committee by representatives from the principal dairying districts. The evidence furnished by tlicso represent;, tives and dairymen was carefully sifre.l. and when the regulations were ill collide of revision, Mr Mc.Nab accepted all rea sonable amendinents. "1 was a member of the Agricultural, Pastoral and Stock Committee, as »» Mr. Okey. the member for Taraiia!::. the principal dairy district within t»• - Dominion. On the completion of the committee's work, 1 asked Mr. Ok ■.,- what he thought of it. He replied to (he effect that he was satisfied it was all right. Mr. Okey is a practical larmer, a man who has run his own dairy and milked his own cows, and he is a member of Mr. Massey's party. Well, if he is contented, there cannot be. much wrong with the regulations.

"It has been said that the dairy regulations, with some assistance from the suggested Meiklc grant of CJUOO. caused the defeat of Mr. Mc.Nab. Jf so lie suffered from what was no fault of his. U followed as the obvious corollary to the judicial inquiry that as, some money should lie placed on tieEstimates the amount rested with the Government, and the sum voted with the House. Knowing something of the position I prefer to think Mr. McNab's attitude on the freehold versus leasehold question contributed more to his defeat than the. dairy regulations or the Mcikie grant. The ethics of political warfare might justify the combatants in making the most heinous of lying charges agaist the enemy, but surely when peace is proclaimed wo should, one and all, ascend to the realms of truth. Therefore let justice he done to Mr. McNab."