THE WASTE LANDS DEBATE.

Evening Star, Issue 3000, 30 September 1872, Page 4

THE WASTE LANDS DEBATE.

On the evening of the I9th inst., when Mr Vogel was speaking upon a clause of the Otago Waste Lands Act. he was several times interrupted by M r Mervyn, greatly to his annoyance; and the following little episode was the result. The House was was fairly convulsed with laughter by it : Mr Vogel ; I must claim the services volunteered last session by Mr Parata to carry the hon, member out of the House, as being a nuisance. Mr Mervyn : The hon. member may himself require the assistance of Mr Parata Mr Vogel : I am at all times quite able to walk home without assistance. In alluding to the recent large sales of land, Mr T. L. Shepherd, in reply to Mr Reid, said that hon. gentlemen was a sham and a delusion. He stumped the country like an advertising sandwich—on one side “Settlement of the Land,” Land for the People,” and “ People for the Land”; whilst on the other side Look here, “Squatters support your man”; “50,000 and 20,000 acre blocks without competition” ; (l The best of laud, agricultural aud auriferous.”