POLITICAL NOTES.

Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 3 October 1913, Page 3

POLITICAL NOTES.

Wellington Wednesday. In reply to Sir Joseph Ward, who enquired as to the date of presenting the Public Works Statement, the Minister for Publie Works st;U«l I hat the Estimates wore fairly well advanced, and he hoped to bring down the Statement at the end of October.

The Minister for Railways has promised Mr Young, M.P., that he will see that representations made respecting the freight on pipes used for waterworks shall be borne in mind when the revision of the railway tariff is made.

The Government is considering an amendment of the Workers' Dwellings Act. 1010, in the direction oi'iuirehasing land and erecting homes on land provided by individual workers, provided the amount reiufml would not be over that allowed under the Act, namely, .L'oflO.

In putting a question to the AUorney-lleneral as to whether he will extend the powers of the Public Trustee and his agents so as to rv.hle them to execute the transfer and drawing up and releasing of mortgages of properties t;pio the value of £1000, and thus prove it the public from being legally robbed by some tinscrupulous lawyers. Mr Clark stated that in the* Chalmers district a widow, an old age pensioner, was charged £7 7s for the releasing oi an ordinary mortgage of a property valued at about

A petition has been presented by Mr Rhodes on behalf of 02!) resident:; of the Thamis-liatiraki Plains and Coromandel Peninsula mpijr the construction of a branch line between Pokeno and Konu, on the ground that it would .shorten the East Coast line to Auckland by (!S miles, and that it would also serve the Hauraki Plains district, which if. at present practically isolated so far as railway eommunie:ition is concerned,