SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 655, 4 November 1909, Page 7

SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.

■; < WELLINGTON OE AUCKLAND Somo interesting remarks with reference tu the , location of tho scat of Government took place in tho House of Representatives last eight, VMr. Glover (Auckland Central), it will be remornhercd, recently asked whether the Government would take ifilo consideration the appointment of a special"•em'raittse cf thb Houto to go into the question of the removal of the Qbvcinmpnt hcndquartere nom Wolhnglon to Auckland, ;Tho Pfifflo Minister, in reply, said he sympathised with tho honourable gentleman in his natural donlro to have the city of Auckland made the .seat of Government, and ho, agreed that from tho point of suitability and goncrnl attractiveness that that city compared favourably with ftriy rther centre, in the D6mimdh Tho deoisicn come to some years ago, after full inquiry, to mfik.e Wellington , the B"at of Government could not, however, 1:6, ignofed, find in vio* of the fact that c:public'buildings hod been erected in the Empire City to enable the work of the central Government to he earned on, tho consequent expenditure attendant upon such <v proposal, apart altogether from the cost of Parliament ]3iuldings, was nuch as to Ooter the favourable eonmderntioii of the (jUMtion. Mr , . Glover, in expressing dissatisfaction with thfi ansvfor, , -.aid that he would like to mnkc "one appeal orl behalf of my good people of the crty of Auckhnd." (Laughter.) In rethe iaki of'SMcl'mnett l if'they tnado a chinge, the f(ucstion 'was, 1 Whtrc wore they to gft? Voices, To Jfailboronsh. f I say, that it should,go to Aucklafid,,,nnil if we could only dooido upon a the capital would be removed from (Wellington tn-tnorrow. (Ironical liear, hKars.) PA-nckland is olie of th.e most progrenrivi" and prosptwf plates ih Now Zealand, l\ his ftreat potentialities and,, in timo to enmn, when, perhaps, I have passed to the Kitind and beautifn) beyond— (Loud laughtef) ' i Sir lo'cph Ward- That ran't bo bo beautiful m Auckland l (Linfrhtor.) Mr. Glover said tho,f«t that there was »lrondy a Government Fbuse in Auckland, and none m Wellington,! 'was nn wgnment m fjvonr of wh»t he OToposcd. Hβ admitted that it would he rather far to take southern mtmbers to Auckland. . Mi. Arnftld j fCxincrtin)- We would be enty too • plca«?d, ]f , J t ?i 9 0Te I;' rrle! e A?eWa«n» People are well rtT* ftV her hcsplt: ! 'ty-hete, hear)-and \/ trea 1 you well evorv timo w -™i i? \l ad he tt" u Kht the time had arnved whon the qutstion of the sent of Government should bo definitely settled. It was not doeiraljlo that whenever new Parliamentarv J»»« T i t,r S r rc c " tn, n disabilities in having the seat of Government m a dty, mid not h™ a fcL B T« bal W WeHingtoii •woiild not been made the, teat .of Goiornment. feSAsm ss n pnme *«* in Mnl' 80 " *w<l that there wns a vorv was a desperate place in regard to rent for « ™ fL ,TO "A d , b < , a Bood thing for this city «frL W / ,B n l South) Wo are not nil yoor throats. Wellington n a &r "t Qtl f 0!,, aml lfc t*' Wt i & ha" ?nn?w h ? ueoplo o« Wellington , have got «onrasp «««! mdepondeiics. Mr. Glover So they have in Auckland