PARLIAMENT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10678, 5 July 1912, Page 5

PARLIAMENT

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

.' .WELLINGTON, Last Night, Tho Legislative Council met at 2.30 .p.m.

ADDRiESS-IN-RiEOPLY. The Hon. J'. T. Paul, resuming the AdUiv.J3-iu-Roply deba'te, characterised it r« ,rcn•!. kn'hle for ite kngith., dud the oniksim ck many .big questions. In tli-w-o ■lwptc'cs, it way easily ]a record. The only explanatren was It'hiit the p:-i!'ty in ipuwer was anxious to ivame a policy for v'he moment. fHicre was sm absence of roforcme to the .piT.posr.rs contained, in the Fcbniift7 *pc.:cli. He iield that prepewnis , should not be put fcu'ward to catch votes, and the Government deserved to be ceiumrea for abandoning them m:,:iib> He ad.minKtration tf V.hcur ii>«' s » ;uul snltl ithaii di.- Aihitr:.':.'•"• -CVcrt was one lof the- most beneficent institutionri we had. He advocated tlw> bare majority 'in vspiti-d to .tlie hquor u.. Ho ..aba iidvv.catoci reprcr.'Civi.ri&icm. , Ullio Hon. H. Aiut.y commended the «uggostiion. in the Speech to make. --sirVetiriiic: allowance to legislators. He .approved cf the setting up oi* the U.is.b cf Livvag C'om.mbcon, but criticised the order cf reference of the iatter. H'e contended that the cost Of education was not warranted by it'he results. In regard to defence. ,it jappealred that ut were aiming rather to ostdblu'h a, .military autocracy than to <dve efficient training. He expressed flkVt the Government had put a little more life into its land policy, hut he thought fionn.? 'being cut up too small, and they were 'neglecting to buy big cM'ates. The land:.' Department wanted re-organas-ing. Thei'e wins sonvctliing radically (wrong about it. .Rings and monopolies, be jriafoi taliped, ware 1 at the hottea rf the labour" unresrt. -'he Council, ndjounncd till 8 p.m. Tn the 'evenin gthe 'Council passed the AddnVcs-i'in.-Rcply, and adjourned until Wednesday next.