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WELLINGTON TOPICS.

REINFORCEMENTS. , THE SUPPLY OF MEN. (From Our Own Correspondent). Wellington, July 9. Enquiries made during the. week-end reveal the rather surprising fact that auite a number of members of the Hous? of Representatives hold the opinion supposed to have been expressed by Sir Joseph Ward when addressing a deputation on Friday to the effect that the lime was approaching when the country would have to seriously consider whether or not it could keep up its monthly reinforcements to the Expeditionary Force. A later statement made by the Minister of (Finance showed be had not intended to suggest the Dominion should ask to be relieved its obligation to ■the Mother Country in this respect, but fully a dozen of the twenty-five or thirty members to be found in W el j ton over the Sunday argue that now America baa come into the struggle on., the sido of the Allies and Russia is recovering from the throes of her revolution there is no need for New Zealand to deplete herself of her virile manhood in an effort to maintain for a fourth year a contribution to the Imperial Forces that was expected to renuired only for a much shorter period. Some of these gentlemen have expressed a determination to put the matter' tol tjic test in the House, and if they do they certainly -will receive more than a negligible measure of support,

the ministerial ATTITUDE. trofbaWv the members of the House who are slackening in their enthusiasm for the maintenance of the reinforcements at their full strength have been more influenced by the repre»en, a... • md e to them by the Second Division League than fey any particular cancel* for the scarcity of labororthe la g inn of industries which they put for ward as masons for reducing the num-. her of men going to the front, in? Second Division League, perhaps unintentionally, but still has been gathering strength as a poii tical power ever since its formation, and to-dav "it is exacting a far more sympathetic hearing from the politicians than is the Returned Soldiers Association. Ministers, however, have not been weakened in their resolution by its activities and neither the lexers on one side nor the leaders on the other are likely to entertain any proposal for lessening the Dominion's monthly dratts of men.' Mr. Massev and Sir James Allen have declared themselves most emphatically on this point, while Siv Joseph Ward has made it quite clear he would relegate New Zealand's share m the struggle to no outsider and the other Liberal members of the Cabinet are in entire accord with the sentiments of their .party chief. THE ETERNAL QUESTION,

During tlie opening days of the session it was whispered about the lobbies that the advocates of six o'clock closing for hotels had prepared an amendment to the Address-in-Eeply expressing confidence in the Ministry, but indicating to the Governor that no legislative pro-, nramme which did not provide for the restriction they proposed to place upon the liquor traffic would be satisfactory to the countrv. The mover and seconder were mentioned, in confidence, and a pricked card was produced showing a small majority in favor of the amendment. Last week, however, little was heard about the matter and it was supposed - the promoters of the move were waiting a favorable opportunity to drop their bomb into the camp of the enemy; but to-day it is reported that a majority of the Labor members had gone over tq the other side and that the latest count pf heads has left the six.' o'elockers in a minority. This may not be roflowed by the abandonment of the proposed amendment, as the numbers still show tho pties to be very closely divided, but probably it \jill lead to further, disintesrr jtion aong the representatives of Labor in 'the House.

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Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1917, Page 5

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WELLINGTON TOPICS. Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1917, Page 5

WELLINGTON TOPICS. Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1917, Page 5

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