VERY MUCH ALIVE.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1916, Page 8

VERY MUCH ALIVE.

THE PARTY SPIRIT. PENSIONS FOR SOLDIERS CHILDREN. (From Our Own.Correspondent.)' Wellington, May 26. The spirit of party is not dead in the Hone of Representatives, and occasionally, it appears to be very much alive. An example was provided this afternoon, when Sfr. A. H. Hindmarsh (Wellington South), was making a spirited appeal for a further improvement in the pension for soldier's childion. The Government lias consented to jive 7s Od a week to the child of a man who has fallen in the service of the country, and Mr. Hindmarsh was insisting thai this was not a sum on vliicli the child could be fed, clothed, housed and educated in a fitting way. "The Government has no right to talk of lack of money while wealth is failing to bear its share of the burden," said Mr. Hindmarsh. "I intend to neord in Hansard on another occasion the nr.mes of rich men who are shirkers. I shall, mention the names of members of the Massey party who have not done their duty at this'time." Mr T. M. Wilford (Hutt): "I have come names, too." The Prime Minister: "And this is not forty!" * Mr Wilford: "Mine are not party names. They are the names of wealthy shirkers." Mr. Hindmarsh: "I want to tell the country that there is party in this Parliament. Of course there is party. Tnly one member on the Massey side of the House lias demanded fair pensions for children, and that is the member for Tarannki." / Members: "And theMnember for Nelson." Mr. Hindmarsh: "T will add the member for Nelson. T want to say to the men on that side of the House' that .if the children must suffer in order that we may win the war, then let them suffer. We will pay even that price for viet.'"y. But the children should be the last to suffer, not the first. Give the s'ldior'? child a chance in life as long as t! ere is money in the country." Mr. Hindmarsh spoke to a running fi'c of rather angry retort from the benches behind Mr. Massey, and directly ) he sat down Mr. R. Hudson (Motueka) i rose to remark emphatically. "I want | ic say that the statements made by the | speaker regarding the Reform members are absolutely incorrect."