WATERSIDE STRIKE ECHO.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 226, 22 September 1915, Page 9

WATERSIDE STRIKE ECHO.

SPECIAL CONSTABLES' LOST TROPERTY. ißy Telejrpb. — rarllameciary Reporter i WELLINGTON. Tuesday. For the tecond time this session the House of Representatives this af-ernoon spent a couple of hours in claims for a lost horse and saddle, the properly of a Waikato settler, who loaned them to special constables. The Puiitie- Petitions Committee recommended the petitions to the Government's favourable notice, but its report was referred bark by the House. The petitions' came up again to-day with a favourable recommendation. »o lons a* an inquiry is made into the equity ol each claim. Mr. lsitt opened ihe discussion, which lasted all the afternoon. He had been in i minority of one at the Public Pttitions Committee rueetinj, or. as he put it. "I found my»elf the one cane, well-balanced man on the committee." It was suojjested by Mr Hornaby that Waikato people ought to be a.-hamed to come a'.onft at »uch a time vvith claims for an old" »iddle and a "pound a lejr" horse. He v»as sure Ins own constituents were more patriotic over their part in the waterside strike. Thin contrast between Wiikato and Wairarana provoked Mr. Younc to defend the patriot..-«m of his constituents by eloquent references to bravery on the height* of Galhpoli. The son of a petitioner was actually amonjj the heroes of Anxac. So much had to be said about the business, that the motion to adopt the favourable report »aa "talked out.