PARLIAMENT.
(By Telegraph—From Our Parliamentary Correspondent.)
WELLINGTON, August 22. In the Legislative Council, to-day, the second reading of the Tohunga Suppression Bill elicited a long debate. The Bill was generally approved of, but several members considered that it should be applied also to European quacks and charlatans. The Hon. S. T. George illustrated the necessity for this, and referred to the rain-making experiments at Oamaru. The Hon. Wi Pere said that some tohungas had the amelioration of the race at heart, but others had ulterior motives, one of which was securing a nice wife. The Hon. J. Rigg urged discrimination between the palpable fraud and the man who, by power of suggestion, was capable of doing good. Other speakers were of opinion that only education and enlightenment would dispel superstition from the native mind. The debate was adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House was occupied during the afternoon and evening with local Bills.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8517, 23 August 1907, Page 5
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153PARLIAMENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8517, 23 August 1907, Page 5
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