THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1910. THE SESSION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10081, 29 June 1910, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1910. THE SESSION.

The session of Parliament iust commencing promises to be interesting and lively to a degree much in ad vance of many sessions immediately preceding it. The opposition Party is stronger and healthier than it haf been for years past. There is "!hat,' ; which seems to anount to almost a split in the Government ranks; there are those members ,especially bent in championing the causes of labour, and then there are the "demands" ol the New Zealand Alliance, while another not strietly pleasant item in the programme, from the Government point of view, is the Knyvetl case. The Governor's speech, a summary of which is published in this issue, is of the usual non-committal order, and represents all the affairs of the Dominion to be in a most g}o&Jng;.eqflditio^^ . tains prom i ses^of : measures of a. very debatable " character.' Everyont', however, knows that much of the legislation foreshadowed wULaimply

rcmainin the spsecb, thoagii wefear legislation that means the creation of more Government billets will be given efl&ct to whether really required or not. Among other measure 8 > promised is "effective anti-trust legislation," and this will probably not make its appearance. ..Than there is the oft repeated promise to develop the water powers of the Dominium, steps in the direction of which will, we sincerely hope, be taken without further inexcusable delay. More promises of closer settlement, also, figure in the programme, but there does not appear to he any anxiety on the part of the Government to assist or promote ofindustria 1 employers and workers. There is, • however, a desire on the part of the Government to place on the Electoral Roils the names of those individuals who are either too negligent or too indifferent to make any effort to avail ihsraselves of the privilege of the franchise. Persona for the purpose are to be, appointed, .and this,, courste, • means Swire GdVernnaent v billet?'; v»vthbut assisting the Welfare of the country one iota' thereby. The Ward Government is presumably already looking ahead to l next General Election!