“TIED UP!”

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 240, 11 July 1928, Page 12

“TIED UP!”

MR. LYSNAR COMPLAINS INTERLUDE IN HOUSE Complaints by Mr. W. D. Lysnar (Gisborne) that members of the Reform Party were “tied” and lacked freedom brightened an otherwise dull debate in the House of I' iresentative last night. "I believe the brake is being put on the .Prime Minister i- more ways than one.” declared Mr. Lysnar.

A member: By whom? Mr. Lysnar: "I’ll leave that to the interjcctor himself.” He claimed that the country would act wisely by returning to Parliament independent men to assist' Mr. Coates. "What is hindering the I’rime Minister,” asserted Mr. Lysnar. "is that he has in the party too many men who are tied. They are not free. They come in tied.’ "Tired?” queried a Labour member. Mr. Lysnar: I said tied. (Laughter.) I grant you the Prime Minister did not tie them ; someone else did. Mr. G. W. Forbes (Ilurunui) : Were you tied? Mr. Lysnar (loudly): No, I would not come here tied.

Mr. P. Fraser (Wellington Central) : You have tied yourself into a knot. (Laughter.) "But what are they alltied to?” queried a member.

Another member: The member for Gisborne is tongue-tied. (Loud laughter.) To another interjcctor. Mr. Lysnar replied : '"He is tied neck and crop, and tied by the hind legs. (Loud laughter.) Mr. J. li. Hamilton (Awarua): What about the fellows on the other side of the House: Are they tied, too? Mr. Lysnar: Some of them, especially extreme Labour. (Laughter.) They are more than tied. They are tied and untied. (Renewed laughter.) There is too much of this tying. (Laughter.) Proceeding. Mr. Lysnar said that in his opinion the rural intermediate credit measure of last session was "nothing short of an abortion.” Mr. Speaker: The hon. member must withdraw that remark. He has no right to denounce any Act of this honourable House.

Air. Lysnar: I cheerfully withdraw. .(Laughter.) “You are not doing one iota of good,” said Mr. Lysnar, his statement prompting Mr. (Speaker to inquire- whether ihe member was addressing the Chair. (Loud laughter.) Air. Lysnar: Well, I'll put it this way: That, legislation is not doing one iota of good to the struggling dairy farmer.

STATE ADVANCES RATES OF INTEREST In view of the reduction in the' bank interest rates by one-half per cent. Air. R. AlcKcen (Wellington South) gave notice in the House of Representatives yesterday to ask the Alinister of Finance whether be would take immediate steps to reduce the interest charges upon all State advances loans to settlers and workers by a similar amount. Concerning rural advances. Air. J. AlcComb’s (Lyttelton) gave notice to ask fhe Alinister of Finance to inform the House the net price per £lOO bond received from flic Bank of New Zealand for the 5 per cent, rural bonds, which were advertised at £9l 10s. I THE “POM POM'’ “What has happened to 1 the,.pom pom?” laughingly interjected the I’rime Minister (Right Hon. .L G. Coates) in the House of Representatives yesterday when Air. D. G-. Sullivan (Avon) begun to criticise the Government for its alleged misdeeds. The reference was to the trouble the Labour Party in the Christchurch City Council got into in connection with their decision to remove the local war trophy guns to a place where they would not be seen by the mass of the people. Air. Sullivan’s reply was that at fhe end of the year the Labour Party would have quite a large pompom, and it had hopes of pom-pomming the present. Government out of office. “UNDESERVED STIGMA” PETITIONER'S ALLEGATION. Stating that an undeserved stigma had been cast upon him and his family through the action of his son-in-law in obtaining a divorce fropi his wife on the ground of continuous mental instability, William Alfred Hewitt, a superannuated railway employee, of Lower Ricearton, Christchurch, petitioned Parliament yesterday asking for a full consideration of the circumstances. The petitioner alleged that false evidence had been given before the Court, and had been accepted by the Judge, and that this evidence furnished records which constituted, in his opinion, nn ineffecable slur upon his late wife, his (lend daughter, and himself, and two surviving daughters. FERTILISERS ACT ISSUE OF REGULATIONS.' Pointing out that the Fertilisers Act had come into operation on June 1 last, Air. J. G. Eliott (Oroua) asked the Alinister of Agriculture in the House of Representatives yesterday if he would announce when the regulation! under the legislation would make their appearance. The Hon. O. J. Hawken replied that the regulations wore in course of preparation, and would have appeared/earlier lint for one or two adjustments that had to be .made. They would be gazetted shortly. /