POLITICAL NOTES

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18485, 12 September 1925, Page 15

POLITICAL NOTES

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WELLINGTON, September 11,

-j—l commissions —Minister's ■"jJuspproTal. , t'l am against Commissions," sadd a, Jfani Pomare when he was piloting Ag Mental Hospitals' Estimates through , fee Sowc. «If wo can reform our institutions fjjpj within I can see it, is better than -forming them from without. On the itthtxi you raise a tremendous fuss JSjh might be partly true, but would cTJieroscopieally enlarged, and I am Hi goinff to be a party to that. ]f j-rtfcn the next six months our insti- ' fcttoßsiave not been improved out of ~>YsAt 7 on cau ,iavc 3S man . v Royal ' {Mutiissions as you like, but give us a !j£ee *"' to finish the J ob we lla - v e Sifted on." fjjr Maui Fomare thinks that the men "md *4° en yrho g0 t0 mental hospitals towork arc the most humane of "They must be," h e S avs, JJjJj J believe the milk of human tfcfoeff is more developed in them A«ito JO afl y others. However, if there LTjomplaints they must be investi'JJjtd, and i f i<; mcaiis the sacking of '2*j2lividual he or she must go. fjj, gullivan: What method of in-! >-jtjrttion'do.you adopt? ■< fir Maui Pomare: I go and do it

<fa Weeks Ahead. liriij whcn t,ie Minister 'ajVfli in the House that from now on •"fte-HOUM should sit on Mondays, the jjjfcf, of the Opposition, Mr Forbes, "&tod -^ r oatcs wou ld state what \S(jitt*W it was proposed to take during r ,sAj remainder of the session. Coates replied that of the Bills *«* tieTOlder Paper it was proposed to ««ewd w ith the Electrical Wirenien's 'fedrtratjon Bill, the Child Welfare .3$ the Coal Mines Bill, the Stone Ljjinrieg Amendment Bill, the Forests Bi,, > the Chattels Transfer • Jta&dtteat Bill, the Life Insurance v AjinHUß«it Bill, the District Court Bill, the Land Transfer .-Jjjffljment c Pensions AmendJ «2pjifl, the Samoa (Shipping) Bill, £§Jil*eal Elections and Polls Bill, the "CflfetiM Amendment Bill, the Govem&atfjkJWlways Amendment Bill," tho sfemyjaent of the Public Debt Bill, the on Vehicles Amendment Bill, 'fftr/fMghts and Measures Bill, the m(hauon of Land Bill, the Bating $KJL.tbe Canterbury College and tho .Agricultural College 1 'ljtonfoent Bill, the Mutual Fire In*fiS»|« Amendment Bill, the Fire Ijfcfjple* Bill, the Publio Works f'll£stt«Bt Bill, the Highways Amendjpa&Bill, the Finance Bill, the Death jt)j||je| Amendment Bill, the Stamp sraßlttd the Lands Bill, the balance of 'lssmiking Up Bill, and a Bill affeet.jljticfo 841& t T " D| traffic in the cities. ,s .sijiseeHng the last-mentioned Bill fJIr T Coate» said that the larger cities Hktfked for this, and legislation Mgjd JW introduced in any c;t \ The "ifiT w 'tt* legislation would be l*&«Pte3' Jm% and it would indiInlCijtfiat legislation was likeiy to tt *dditioa there would be tho Statement, the SuppleEstimates, the Approbation matters of that kind. !. ■iljE"2f asters asked if there would be 'ljajjLtjnn dealing with the question lands. Yos, and a Lands AmendglMpeitch asked about agricultural aHllegislation. |||fCoates said ho was afraid the arnl'*jtospitals.. Ipeversj£ members ,to-day complimcntl&thb Minister in charge .„ of • Mental (Sir Maui- Pomare) and the |||jjjjernment, ou all that had been dono 3§Pwfi interests of patients in mental 'wm? "Witty (Biccaiton) was espociallj' He put in a plea for in respect to making it ||u££or them to get superannuation. *Jj|ie t was no doubt, he said, that some Ipijjafl ~ obsessed with their surroundWtl and 'eventually became patients Men and women, he added, be burn to do that work, fnlimentary references were made r,l«te Br. Hay, and also to the Truby King. urged that in cases where rognjw, did work that was profitable they should be paid i|ip> prisoners. References to tho overcrowding in some institutions. , 1 Pomare paid . a personal the late Dr. Hay. It was, of ten. that a man of that |||jj|ftKW3B-to be found. He said he MBPfohed to thank the staff for the manner in which they had their work* They had MBE«tJunendous zeal and loyalty in 1 ehanges that had taken place few months. In regard HHjfPjy's suggestion about paying Mlwwlor the work they did, as was ease of prisoners, he did jjjHgjWk&r Sidey's comparison was SKpMppy one. They could not comcases. A prisoner was in gj^pgof.his faculties, and he did HmjJPJT**"'' Moreover, he was in MpHg a limited time. On the other HJ&yFta**' Impossible to tell how pKpTOntal patient would be in an Again, in a mental hoswas part of the cure, j3»P|El>atieats did only the work of man. Often, too, WKSfij£isA not do the work as it done. He thought it was well alone. to a question by Mr HoljfflßlSfflght, the Prim© Minister the enquirj- into the use isSKiOealaod coal on the railways iJHiJJtate .completion. He doubted, it would be completed in sßPj&t*«ented to Parliament this - ,ls lmH&_ undorstood the Enquiry most of the trials MaßJEMffta Island, and that some carried out in the South. |B£B|jKoßt -of the detail work haa . ' ut no " e trials ■NgP3%M6 wero under way> PulBHbSI'Si'L ■ en tr ' an d was a difficulty was to have it What they were HJKJBB.-'ft 6 moment was a method ■a@gg£the coal, if it was found Klgflffpfr* 1 " New Zealand coal and