PARLIAMENT

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 68, 18 September 1917, Page 3

PARLIAMENT

YESTERDAY'S SITTING

Monday night .sittings commenced in the House of Representatives yesterday, when members assembled at 7.30 o'clock. Notice was given by Mr. J. C. .Thomson to ask the Government if it will take means to ensure that aliens are called on to do war work for the Dominion. When the formal business had been completed (which was just before tho supper adjournment) an opportunity was given members to discuss Ministers' answers', to questions which had been brought down 'during the past fortnight and not previously debated. FOREIGNERS ON THE WHARVES, _ Mr. R. A. Wright referred-to the question asked about the employment of foreigners on the wharves. He contended that, as suggested by Mr, J. Vigor Brown, the best way to discover them was to compel them to show their naturalisation papers. He was convinced that there were scores of men there who were aliens and opposed to the British people. There was a percentage of men there who'were a danger and a menace to the community. There was evidence of that at the time of the strike, and he hoped an effort would be made to see ■ that these men were naturalised. He declared that many foreigners in New Zealand who were not naturalised posed a« being naturalised and voted at elections

Mr. R. Fletcher said that most of the men referred to were working in the coal department, under the control of private companies, who should be consulted in the matter. REGISTRATION OF ALIENS. The Registration of Aliens Bill was read a third time and passed. The House rose at 10.10 p.m.