POLITICAL NOTES.
(By Telegraph.)
(FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) WELLINGTON, July 8.
JOTTINGS,
Captain Russell says that the Premier, in bis public capacity, ia the most persistent violator of the Truck Act in -his colony.
Mr Collins wishes to know "why tbe Government does not pay the prevailing rate of wages? Outside employers, he says, in many instances, pay a higher rate.
The Hon. Mr Cadman estimates that there must be at least four hunt-red extra men employed in the railway workshops at the present time. Mr r>edcfon is enthusiastic about a New Zealand' flag, and talks of bringing down a New Zeabnd Flag Act to secure to the colony the former design of the Union Jack with the four stats ot the Southern Cross on a blue held. Ho believes we could get a Royal warranty for such an Act.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10703, 9 July 1900, Page 6
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