IMPREST SUPPLY PASSED.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 238, 1 July 1908, Page 9

IMPREST SUPPLY PASSED.

ADDRESS-IN-REPLY DEBATE'

DR. CHAPPLE'S MAIDEN SPEECH.

MR., MASSEY AND THE PREMIER CROSS SWORDS.

Tho, Houso met for only an hour yes*Serday afternoon,; and-passed: the ..first Improst,. Supply . Bill.; Tho only outstanding feature'of the Bill was an increase .of £50,000 in tho Public Works appropriation, which tho. Premier said was required by reason of tho,. Government's-roads and bridges 'pro-, posals. ) , ,Thi*3 can ,bo taken to indicato a practical issuo ;to tho' Premier's already announced; intention, of- spending '; £200,000:; a year. : iii improving roads in the back-blocks. Tho Bill 'was afterwards put through' all its stages in tho Council. : ;.'

Tho evening sitting of the Houso was devoted to tho Address-in-Reply debate Dr Chapplo -opened-, with ■■ a carofullv-prepared aiid well-worded speech in praiso of'tho past and present policy ,of the Ballancc, Ward, and Seddon'Governments. . Tho now, momber.s maiden, effort was well received by a House, in which! thero wore but . few vacant .seats., , Aftor, tho.secondor (Mr.. Groenslado) Mr., Massey. followed',with a- vigorous critinf tho Government, covering a good deal, of .ground., , Sir Joseph Ward, who was in\ good fighting; trim, replied, 1 and Mr. James Allen secured tho floor only to movo the. adjournment at .twenty minutes before mjdnight. yi : '-