SELF-RELIANCE, MARRIAGE, AND BENZINE.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 12, 14 July 1923, Page 7

SELF-RELIANCE, MARRIAGE, AND BENZINE.

Humorous tilts at speeches of Beform members^vere cast by Mr. A. J^Lee " (Auckland East) last night, in the House- ' of Representatives. ■■■-.: :. : <-. ; - The member for Egmont (Mr. ;'O J ' Broken, said Mr. Lee,' had delivered ' a little homily on Belf-reliarice, arid had- ■ suggested, that men should not Marry"" untd.they;first of all had a home of their own. ' Seeing that-it takes 26* years"--' to pay off the cost of a-worker's home "■■ ■ remarked Mri Lee, "a man would 'Vb'e"«.> 44 years of age before he led his blush?" mg bnde of- 44Vt 0 : the' altar.' This;" would mean that we would have to im ; - port our population. (Loud laughter.) ' perhaps the hon, member believes tha& the man should build his house £' ' bnck at a. time. Now let. us apr^y his little homily to the farmer.' Si®' pose the farmer bought his farm a yard at a time—l don't know whether vhe' could do that—l calculate, as farms.'are ' by no means cheap, that it would-.^e-'v a man 60 or 70 years to completa the' purchase. By this time : his e'iderly "■ spinster would probably refusehuai- for" she might consider that she. weald be-. disqualified from'getting the old-age pen-"." sum. (Laughter.) - That is the sort of thing put forward as serious poptics by- ~ the members on the Keform benched ' I am afraid our opponents' souls only ' respond to the musical tinkle of the cash register. Then there is the member for •" Tauranga,.Mr. Macmilkn., He propoees- : to solve the ills that afflict: humanity-i by putting a tax on benzine. (Laughter )'' " He says, 'If you-want a house, tax beai ; ? 1? c"- JJ The who 1? .solution of the-soor-"-lal riddle, according to the inemKer'for! Tauranga,, is to be found at the.bottanLC;. of a benzine tank." (Renewed langhteß^' 1 .