POLITICAL NEWS AND NOTES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 99, 4 August 1910, Page 4

POLITICAL NEWS AND NOTES

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- . Wellington, Last^ffUP I'N OLDEN DAYS. .T-..-. "■ What a great thing is the "righTof question,",. Formerly Ihwijustom was to gltewer by word and members •were dissatisfied wiffi the replies. At last, some sit sears ago, the Government of the day, fid Sing that this lost a deal •of, They; presented, their answers, in a printed string on Wednesday afternoons, and set apart a couple of hours of the afternoon for the customary protests 'Oi the dissatisfied, ev6ry malconteht , having ten minutes iri whicjh to bring down the heavens by wav'b , f provjng-that justice had not been 1 done. , 'A'-WASmD AFTERNOON. You Will-ujid<[rstaftd;'ihiijb the mopping up of-this'two the debate tqot. all (the iiiteJelt cfl "of] "scored qu{f HireMfcat "the ba% debate is dead 'w SJuliuWCaesar." Ai'a mk|tter ol fact, m debate is exactly in thajt position, bfk like the worms which $j on after tney orb 6uti/to pieces, the debate goes on, "with, of course, the worm." " CHATRMASSHIP There is nothing ne,w about the Chairpjaitsafife ', of ,Coraniittee«* j which' only thing moving s ,of the debate, now that opinion beginning toltun hi the direction of putting Mr. Hansm is spoken' of as'i would .suit,, and Mr. Russell' hajjfftis backers,'but .this rather spoils thfiutianimity essfitttiai', to- the change in tnfe presence; t of the exrfnjglhe most diffldilt of manoeuvres kftww]tosoldiers. now IsJwjjßir W. €[te\va-rd'9 supporters stand uqenoactedly ''firm, -and "tbeM j«, mmon that hold \vith"empha'tifl{,Moffssj4nf*of faith tjuttth'e member who.has reduced il.'police to be irregular ought'not to T).e .'promoted whetflEhe officer is dierated.-<> , -'-f' '< * f EXPENDITURE Question)' were\eplied to to-da-K^ MpQKeV asked Jltether fHheyt-wili amend the" (Public Revenues Act sV) as to aH4w coutty counjeljs |the same ,»owe|:pepd|ture ajtfi|Jal. . is: "Section'vjjbues Act, IOOgJ* provides that uikutlorised expenditure may be incufied up to L per cent, of the income off a county council, but not exceeding ttso per,annum, while section 101 ofjthe Miiriicipal.:CorJ)orltion«'-Ac(£d»oß, Wovides that municipal councils may spnid, >'aa Ji per,,«ept, of the nnefal rate' 'but not to exceed .-£3O fper annum. From this pauit of-view county councils have greater"'latitude, th(fflgn in both cases the maximum unauthorised expenditure per annum is, the sanYe—■•£so." ' ji* >:-:-• , .■■ .. I registration; , ok, stopk. \ f .Mr. Jennings aske*d v 'the'Mihistei i of Agriculture whether take Kiito consideration the sfuggesfion that in regard to the. registration awyslem, |o (be kno\yn, aja fthe leger plyetem" could be brought' into operatictt so as to prevent stock-pillering. (Nrate: The "mistakes," to put it mildly, I lat fluently arise in connection with *pck prove that ear-marking irM branding hi jiot .to, stop 'the addition to stock by a, process known %a naturaliselection, -*(likih'causes 'a great.deal of'irritation in districts where fencing itfipot oi ( .fth* r ibeßtH'YTftfi.?Mimßter answ|ired e>nu§i?f some! months submission of schemes having thattlpDjectl -in ivieW l . s The' time, fof entrieslfor. this competition closed on Jujy 31, find it is now intended to appoint a commission of pastoralists to report uponme proposals submitted, which numberjOfer forty. It is hoped that the committee will be able to report thnt a scheme capable of practically preventing theft of jive stock has be^uioimdj^U^^g