THE "RADICAL-ARISTOCRAT."

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14758, 30 August 1913, Page 15

THE "RADICAL-ARIS-TOCRAT."

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(SPECIAI. TO "THE r:iESS.") WELLINGTON, August 29. Com piini-<?ri ts w-er« freely flviuj; in tho Holism of Ropresentativ«e this ovenini; bt-tween Mr Eii an-d Mr Hind-rr-arsli. .Mr HinJinnrp}). .nnimatod- by .'» ejeat roncern for reading public, took tho opportunity, when tho Library Estimates tt'crc under ciiscussion, of nrcir.g that the Parlwmiontury Library slioukl j \.vs thrown open moro largely it us !to th" iiso of tho general public. Ho i rt-forml to tin. 1 restrictions that pr<>viiikMl. .nu'.l Uwv tbs.se .should hf\ i-educ«L • ,i An interjection of ''Quito rijrnt frem Mr V.A, vrlion M.r lliiuhnaj>;h n. I - ferred to the oxclusion of tlio public, led dirrotly to the of pleasant ritw. "There." sail] Hindmarsli, "you havo au csample of a ?o-e;\!k s d radical bccoir.itifj an .-iristccrat jiut as .soon as ho gets a chanro. Why, he developed :i bell-topper ;>s scon as be got chnnef, and if lie bad remained in potver louder tlicro would have boon no stamlniji him at all." (T^uiditcr.) .Mr Jlindinatsh imxx-eJcd to o'aborato his grounds for tho request that tho public .should have grrnter to tho Parliamcut-arj Library. Did members r>iy in any way for this liberty? How was the library kept It «•(!<; kept by the nation of .\'<?w Zoaluwl. and therefore he did not sec why members should claim a proprietary intwes.t iv it for themselves. Tho Hon. F. M. B. Fisher infornK-<l Mr Hindniarsli t! ai, in iii-s opinion, nota single rcenibor of the House witli him. The JiCrary was tsjx'cblly a Parliamentary librnry, and the public ocuhl »:ot bo allowe-cl to use it very 1-n-rgely with any justice to the members. Mr Kll. at -a later stage, said: 7 am ono of those who read a groat deal, and — Mr Jfindmn-rsli: 1 \*-i* your pardon? Mr Kll (ve'-y distinctly^: I am one of those who read a pvrnt deal. M.r Hind-nwi-rsh: V.'oll, you surprise mc. (I/OTi'.l lausbter.t Mr Ell oluarr.eteriM-d Mr Hindmarsh's speech as an electioneering one, and proceeded to "tcet Iviek' , on hie int-4ir-jeetor- "The liononrab'e in em be." he . v aid, "referred ju'-"t now to books 071 tnst-e. T should advise him to go and read up what is frood taste, and then Ye won't mnko t l io comments he does. (Hear, hear.) He is the last honourable 'Tcntleninn I would to for instruction in good