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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10694, 15 August 1912, Page 5

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(By Te^graph —Press Association.) ' NELSON, Last Night, j Several informations were heard at Brightvvater to-day against Territor- | ials failing to take the oath of alio- j gin nee, and failing to attend camp. All the cases were defended. The defence raised was that Territorials could not he recruited from anywhere except the general training section, and were not required to take the oath prescribed .by the regulation:; with regard to the charges of failing to attend camp. Magistrate Evans drew attention to the wording of taction 51 of the Defence Act. and questioned whether the penalities of the section applied to Territorials. Judgment was reserved in all cases. His Worship said that the Department should be represented by counsel as these points affected the whole administration of the Act. An employer was fined £1 and costs for preventing an employee from rendering service. in connection with Mr McAlister's holding of all the iGovernment work in InvercM'gill appertaining to the -Go. ' | eminent Insurance Department. He | pointed out that in Wellington a cer- j 'i tain legal firm had, during the regime ! of the late Government, had a prac-; | tical monopoly of the legal emoluments. I He held there was nothing new. in the proposal for an elective Upper I Hoii'Se. • Sir G. .Grey had proposed ' a similar scheme, but the Imperial l authorities would not agree to it. The I 'propc&alsi in connection .with ft ho , linking funds of the Advances to Settlers Office were not sound finance. He w.i'S pleased to know that the graduated land tax had been the means of placing more settlers on the land than would have otherwi.se been , the case had the system orat been ini troduced. He trusted the Government would keep on making provision for the back blocks settlers, to got access to the nearest harbour or railway for the disposal of their produce. The Government would find themselves very bn.sy if they tried to keep lup with the land settlement of ilid , late Government, ' They would rc--1 quiro to 'tattle from lii'toen hundred | tc eighteen Juindred people a year, j The debate was adjourned, and the House ro&a at 10.45 p.m.