ORAKEI NATIVE RESERVE BILL
PLAIN SPEAKIinG BY AUCKLAND'S MAYOR, • AGE OF LOG-ROLLING NOT YET PAST. (W m«QBArH— SPECIAL TO THE POST.) AUCKLAND, This Day. . The Mayor (Mr. O. J. Parr), in an interview regarding the rejection of the Orakei Native Reserve Bill, , spoke very strongly. . "The age of log-rolling is not yet past,' he declared in the course of some warmly-expressed comments upon the action of the Government in jettisoning the Bill. " The City Council did its very best to get this property for the people. We have failed; private interests were too strong for us," added the Mayor. "The Bill did not go to a vote. Dr. Pomare, a member of the Massey Minislry; talk, ed it out. We must assume that Dr. Pomare acted with his chief's assent, and that Mr. Massey approved. To talk out a Bill is the course usually followed by politicians when they are afraid of a division. Somotimes it is awkward to show one's hand too plainly in Parliament."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 112, 7 November 1912, Page 2
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166ORAKEI NATIVE RESERVE BILL Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 112, 7 November 1912, Page 2
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