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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 144, 5 November 1912, Page 6

[ A Masterton resident has received a communication from a London business house, in which the following sensational statement appears:—"A constitutional question which has been discussed for some time past, is about to take practical shape. It has been maintained by many people of authority on such matters, that no Act of Parliament passed since the payment of members, is valid; because upon (payment of members, each member accepted an office of profit un- ' der the Crown, and by the British Constitution it is necessary that whenever a member of the House accepts such an office, he must seek re-election at the hands of his constituency. This, of course, is always done in the case of a member accepting a Government office carrying a salary, but it was not done by members when they commenced to receive a salary as ordinary members of the House. To the ordinary lay mind, a j salary of £4OO a year constitutes an office of profit, and the Law Courts are now to decide whether it is so legally or not, certain gentlemen having 'undertaken to bring the necessary aetion to obtain such judicial ruling." The folding, dated Dimedin, July 4 appeared in a recent issue of the Glasgow Evening Citizen:—The great cry of the New Zealand farmer at present iii that of the shortage of labor, and I would sincerely say that 'this shortage is not suffl. went when taking into consideration the miserable accommodation that is provided for the men. It is galling for anyone who may be contemplating to leave his own horns, where he may have a clean, comfortable room, and a bed to lie on, to be dumped into the hovels that exist in the "up-country" parts of New Zealand. The usual accommodation that is provided for male farm hands is not fit for a pig, much less a human being. Imagine a man working outside no place to dry them. What comfort is there in a hut with a wooden plank bed and dirty old sacks as bed-clothes? If the man is employed on a dairy farm his work will never be done from the earliest part of the morning till late at night, including Sundays. Another cry of the fanner is to get the Government to import more labor into the country; but those new arrivals will soon find out for themselves, upon landing, that they have been made the tools of the Government and the farmer. If the farmers would but give better inducements, and treat their servants like human beings, they would find sufficient- men at their service without having to import mugs from the old ark, who have not an atomic knowledge of the treatment that awaits them in their new country. I only write this from my own personal experience, and when such conditions exist it really seems a huge farce to call this ''God's own country."

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