POLITICAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 103, 21 October 1911, Page 5

POLITICAL.

' AN OLD CAMPAIGNER. By Telegrtt.ph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Mr. Joseph Ivess announces that he will be a candidate for the Waimarino Beat at the general election. WELLINGTON SUBURBS SEAT. Wellington, Last Night. Mr. W. H. D. Bell, sou of Mr. 11. D. Bell, K.C., opened his campaign for the Wellington Suburbs Parliamentary seat at Karon to-night. He supported the Opposition, and criticised the administration of the Government. He advocated a 55 per cent, majority for Nolieense. and some measures sucli as profit-sharing for making the interests of employer and employed identical. He held that the Arbitration Act was dead. A vote of thanks and confidence was passed, with one dissentient. TIMARU SEAT. Timaru, Last Night. Jesse Reader, Labor candidate for Timaru, gave his first address to-night to a large meeting. He made a good impression. TELEPHONES ON STEAMERS. An interesting proposal has been made in the House of Representatives by Mr. | Myers (Auckland East) who asked the ] Postmaster-General to make provision at the leading ports of the Dominion for attaching telephones to large steamers immediately on their arrival at the wharves. He explained that this is done in many of the larger ports of the world, and is a great convenience, not only to passengers, but also to the officers and commercial people who are working on the ships, Sir Joseph Ward replied that up to the present shipping companies have apparently not regarded it as necessary to provide telephones on their steamships. Any application from a steamship company for any of it's steamers to become subscribers to a telephone exchange would receive prompt attention. RATES ON NATIVE LANDS. Mr. Macdonald asked the Prime Minister whether lie would make provision in the Appropriation Bill to enable the Treasury to subsidise rates actually paid by natives to local governing bodies. He explained that at present native rates did not carry subsidy, like those paid by Europeans. This was anomalous and unfair, and he asked that provision should be made accordingly, and an enabling Bill introduced if necessary. Mr. Crecnslade supported the suggestion. The Prime Minister promised to look into the matter within the next day or [ two, with a view to seeing whether the I subsidy could be given.