PROROGATION PROSPECTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8872, 5 November 1907, Page 4

PROROGATION PROSPECTS.

The beginning of the end of the session of Parliament is at hand. Today the Premier is to intimate to members the date when he will bring down the Public Works Estimates and also the date of prorogation. It is clear from this that Sir Joseph Ward has altered his mind upon the subject of keeping the House together until all the policy measures of the Government are carried. Assuredly some of them are to be dropped, otherwise he could not even approximately fix the date of prorogation. Parliament is tired, and neither the Government nor Opposition wish to prolong the session. The sooner the prorogation, therefore, takes place the better for all concerned. The chief work done has been of a character that will retard rather -than forward the development of the country, and it is desirable that the people should have an opportunity of grasping the full import of the leglisation that has been passed before any more measures of vital importance to the dominion are dealt with. It is well that there is little prospect of the Native Land Bill being put through this session. It deals another blow at the freeholder, and the freeholder has been hit hard enough in the trinity of land measures which the Government has succeeded in forcing upon an unwilling community.