POLITICAL NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 172, 29 October 1910, Page 3

POLITICAL NOTES.

THE RULING PASSION. The member for Christchurcli North had a tilt at the allegedly ruling instinct of Scots when he spoke upon trusts on Monday evening in Parliament. Said Mr. faylo;: '• I had the satisfaction of bringing the flourmillers' trust before a committee of this House, but eleven out of thirteen were Scotchmen, and they had the instinct 01 Highland thieves in them. They wert good fellows every one of them, but they loved a smart deal, with the result that though I proved it up to the hilt that the Flourmillers' Association was a trust, they all admired a smart business transaction so much that we did not get the legislation we wanted thai session." RIVAL FARMERS. "Acre for acre, New Zealand can produce more than double of any agricultural commodity than Australia," said Mr. Hogg on Monday night. "Competition with Australia! The thing is ridiculous. There is no need to be afraid of Australia. New Zealand, with its fine climate and soil and her sluvly farmers, should be afraid of no pm of the world." To all of which the Hon. T. Y. Duncan replied: "I have known Mr. Hogg for a number of years, and never knew him to do a turn of ! farming in his life." Mr. Hogg: "I can tell you how to grow potatoes." Mr. Duncan: "You could better show us how [to eat them!"