NOXIOUS WEEDS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 177, 26 July 1907, Page 7

NOXIOUS WEEDS.

r fSI__GED POI_mCA_.PKOSECU__6__ ASD THE GOVEHMKNT :. ;: :' i "" : __. 7: lefegrapfc-—- Parliamentary Exporter.. ; ¥*•/■ •V7_3__GnGTOK. Thursday. __[_____ loomed large in a personal j__r_rOT-nri-J sense daring the commit- ___ nroceedihgs" upon Mr E. McKenzie's S*X_s Weeds Amendment Bill this af££noc__ The House had carried an limiting the operation of the -"'':«« to the land district of .selson, but ; there was a division of opinion among __ Auckland members as to whether it shoo- SPP 1 ! to the northern province. a somewhat heated dis- | -which, took a-personal turn ffan Jfr Stallworthy, the member for :Z~£_ra, reminded the House that the «w_ber for Waitemata. had once been mfringing the Nosdous Weeds Act. :__■-JoDaid moved that Auckland Pro_in_ he included in the operations of • ' It" was unjust to compel a Si to-clear the road opposite his land j( the weeds had grown owing to the weleci of the local authority, and it ,£ fairer to throw the burden on the jb^.-raies,. jj. Hardy supported the amendment, "also-did 'Mr Wilford. • iher-.amendzn-— t found support from - iwo.Anckland members, Messrs Alison __ Poland, -whose arguments were tj_hil_r to those--of the mover. however, opposed the .' gatenteent. Mr Bollard had no right ' to' "attempt to foSst the bill upon the I . JJortn of Auckland. As for the member I ' for Waitemata, he said: "I do not look apon Mm as -any authority whatever. lT__a_ber the time when he was taken i before the Court and fined for failing ifr'tlear noxious weeds." (Cries of "Oh

:jir Alison, in r_errmg to the subject

• after Mr Stallworthy had resumed, his \ seat, said: "There never was a proseeu- t tiki-New Zealand which was a great- c _.er-K—-edit to the Government than this ' ' nroßecntion against myself. It was a , • jpHtica. prosecntion." (Cries of "Oh, t ' GaX") ''Tes it was," continued Mr Ali- j : son. "I have never made any personal ' ;__marks conarning another member, j and it 31 hecomes the hon. member for ■ ■ . Saipara to mike this attack upon mc. I. .have never done anj-thing in this . House or out of it that I would be ashamed to he made pnblid" ... : - :Mr Stallworthy replied that he still "maintained 3_r Alison had no authority .- .i to force an Act upon his constitnency fwhich the House had no desire to sup- . port. Mr. Wilford remarked that on every • -ccasion for the last seven years, they -_ad found Auckland divided against \ itself, and a great deal of the set-back 'to the progress of that city was due to the fact that its members would not- work together for the common good. • Mr. Dacvey was trying to help Auckland only yesterday in the direction of clear- .. " ihg- ai dangerous place in the harbour. . :f__u_ laaghter.) I will now ask Mr. 3_dd to let ns . hear from him," concluded Mr. WHford, but the member for _ucl_p_l Central had been called from the chamber, and the speaker declared "He __s Just fied." Mt. Ifassey said he intended support- - ing. Mt.\ BdUard. He clearly recollected - _iat ■ twb years ago, when Mr. Mc".•saia__ Ih'll came first before Parlia- & :: -pe_itibn signed, by 54 -women of I ■ £hh r Alraioa, district in _ac Kaipara electarate was presented to the House ; asking for-an amendment of the Noxious Weeds Act as proposed. It was quite trne that Mr. Alison • was fined, but he "'• knew that the member for Waitemata • had expended a large sum of money in : -__nng noxious weeds during the same .- "Mt. Duncan, late Minister for Lands, - said-Mr. Alison had reflected very gravelly upon the Department, in saying that . _ac prosecntion -was political. * ". -Mr. Alison: "Eio it ■was/ ; "iMc Duncan retorted that the oflicer : st-charge of ___ckland district at the tans-<w_s GSIr. Clifton, who was not the ;____ io aDow what Mr. Alison alleged. -___. A—son: "I made no Teference to .amy one individual. I refer to the De- ■:'■■ psd__ni. It was one of the most _h_n__ul a_id __»gi_ce_nl p_T>_e_i\tio-ns ! in this colony, and .:._DB.___ admitted by everyone who . fa_aK __." -

Mr. Dnnean: "I __a_le_ge the Son., member to prove what _he has stated." The Hon. James Carroll remarked that 3_t Alison had been brought before a tribunal for a' breach of the law, surely the tribunal could not be accused of bias? "Mr _____ must have cor__itt_d a breach of the law, because the tribunal fined him. Mr Duncan suggested that it would only be right and fair on Mr .Alison's part if he believed the -prosecution to be political to have coromunicated with the Minister. The matter had to come under the notice of Mr C3ifton, an officer who certainly would not have permitted anything in the way of persecution. The debate was continued until 11.15 p.m. when progress was reported, the House finally adjourning at 11.40.