POLITICAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1918, Page 3

POLITICAL.

tara\ t aki hatters. On Tuesday Mr. Wilkinson is first on tlio Order "apcr with tlie Jjiglev/ood County Hill, and Mr. S. G Smith ife third with the New Plymouth Harbor Empowering Bill. Mr. Jennings is to move—That there he laid before this House n return showing the good| traffic, both incoming an;', outgoing, from Ongarue, Taringamoiu, and Okalmkura railway stations during the past five years. On Wednesday, Mr. Jennings is to ask the Prime Minister whether he will take immediate steps in the direction of auihoiising the Electoral Department to make provision for returned soldiers being allowed to vote in any Parliamentary election that may come for decission? (Xote:: In a recent by-election three returned soldiers, after over three years' warfare, applied for the. right to vote, but, the returning officer had to refuse the request- As many men are now returning, the necessity of giving; full electoral rights on the.se tnen is ap-. parent.) .Mr. Wilkinson is to ask the Minister of Defence, whether he will make inquirios as to the quality of some of the j si-rvi« hats issued to our soldiers, which [it is filleted leak like sieves; and whether it >3 ti-uc- that pay is withheld i'.'oivi soldiers when speeial leave is given, even to the extent of one day's leave, and if this stoppage of pay carries with it a of allowances to wives and ehilisea? Mr. S. (J. Smith (Taranafci) is to ask the Minister of Defence whether, in view of the fact that the low. pay and otiior unattractive conditions of the teaching profession which for some time past lias been seriously decreasing in number—a condition of affairs which, if not properly checked, will in a few years leave the schools without competent male teachers—lie will at once make such increases in teachers' salaries as will not only maintain the present insufficieijS supply, but make certain of such an increase of qualified teachers as will requirements for the proper staffing,** all schools!