PARLIAMENTS WORK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 222, 19 September 1930, Page 5

PARLIAMENTS WORK.

DEBATE ON RAiLWAYS. LABO'CTE MOTION REJECTED. riTE EEEOEM SUPPORTERS. (3~ Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON. Thursday. Tie ramifications of the railway service were tie only topic of debate in the House to-day. when consideration was given tie Railways Statement and the Estimates of .tie Railway Department. Paiih in tie future of tie system was expressed by tie Hon. W. A. Veitch, trio admitted that tie present position was serious, necessitating a drastic and

compreiensive remedy. He intimated tiat tiere would be no major policy alteration until the report oi the commission came to iand. Mr. Coates' criticism of Mr. Yeitch's outline of his policy drew sharp words from Mr. Lysnar, the Independent Reform member for Gis borne, vrio expressed concern that any attempt should be made to make party capital ont of the railway problem, and described the attitude adopted by Mr. Coates as illogical and peculiar.

The debate on the Railway Statement was continued until 11.45, and tie remaining Quarter of an hour was devoted to the consideration of the Estimates, on which progress had to be reported. Mr. 'H. ~ E. Holland, Leader of tie Labour party, moved a redaction of £10 in the vote, to indicate disapproval of the policy of the Minister of Railways in continuing the dismissals of railway employees, "in contravention of iis own promises, publicly made, and in violation of the"Prime Ministers undertaking tiat no further dismissals would take place dining his absence from New Zealand: and further, to indicate disapproval of the Ministers action in so abnormally reducing coal orders to various mines* as to seriously dislocate the coal mining industry." On a division, the amendment was lost bv 40 votes to 24, Messrs. W. P. Endean (Parnell), A W. Hall (Hauraki), A. M. Samuel (Thames), E. A. Wright (Wellington Suburbs), J. A Young (Hamilton), all Reform members, and Mr. J. S. ITetcher (Independent, Grey Lynn), voted with Labour.