The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3905, 5 September 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1891.

A scathing article in the Wellington Evening .Post has cruelly blighted a very promising institution, the Parliamentary Boarding House. Since the .advent to power of the liberal party this restaurant has undergone a change, and its business is no longer limited to the providing of three meals a day, but includes well aired beds for Mr and Mrs M.H.R. Cannot our contemporary allow legislators to make their beds within the precincts of the Assembly buildings and com* plete th<!ir snooze in the House by a snore m one of its offices; cannot he permit messengers of the establishment to employ their leisure hours in an occupation usually followed by chambermaids ? Why should not the domestic yearnings of Hon. members have been allowed to grow and the civilising and humanising influences of a first class legislation boarding house brought to bear on the M.H.R. anxious to make his " screw" go as far as possible. Fancy what a homely scene the legislative pile would in time have become, girded with patent clothes lines on which the soiled Parliamentary linen, after due purification, could be hung, where the pants of even a Cabinet Minister or a Speaker might dangle in the breeze, and the public might gaze with rapture at the sheets on which some celebrated statesman had slept. At present we understand the present boarding-house only accommodates members and their wives but why should it exclude children ? Should the patriot who accepts £240 for a three months' residence in Wellington be deprived of the society of his wife and family, Why should not his little ones prattle io the lobbies? We might even imagine that in time, if the offices of the Assembly become attractive to married ladies, they would be willing to make them the birthplace of their progeny, and that some day a Gampish female might cross the bar of the House and announce a message of a greater interest than the ordinary run of gubernatorial communications. Is it not a pity that a journal like the Evening Post should pry into the domestic arrangements of the As sembly and discourage the effort which is evidently being made by certain economical politicians to make all that can be made out of the situation in which Providence has placed them.