POLITICAL NOTES

Grey River Argus, 27 June 1914, Page 5

POLITICAL NOTES

THE RETORT COURTEOUS., ' I v _ 1 ' ' (Our Parliamentary Reporter}.! By Telegraph.— Special 'to' "Argus." WELLINGTON, June 26.' , Speaking « to the introduction, ofr'his Public Service Amendment Bill, iii the House this afternoon, Sir Joseph Ward was stressing the point that in 'appeal pases the Government should 1 allow appellants the services of a lawyer, when 'Mr E. P. .Lee (Oamaru) interjected: "Would you gyve it to the railway servants?" Sir Joseph Ward: "Yes. I Would." Mr Lee: "Did you do it when, you wtre in power?" # ' Sir Joseph Ward: "No. There were lots of things that I was not" able 1 to "dp. I have not been able to provide the honourable gentleman with judgment." l ' \ x The Hon. F. M. B- Fishei: "No. You never had any to spare."' ' After the laughter which this retort drew, forth v 'had subsided, Sir, Joseph Ward replied that if a ballot were taken in regard to the judgment of the Minister for Marine he would' be • iudged out of his position altogether(Opposition laughter). EDUCATION BILL. Mr Hunter, Member for Waipawa, thW afternoon interviewed the .Minister for Education and placed^ be/ore lum the views of ,tfce, teachers' "of Hawke's Ba,y in reference tojlie provisions., they wish to see included in Education Bill to be introduced this jSession. Mr. Allen has promised, to very care fulb/ consider the .suggestions made by the teachers of Hawke's Bay. ( DISTRICT HEALTH f Dr. Sydney Smith has been appoint ed to the position in the Public^ Health Department at' Dunedin, recently vacated by 1 Dr. Chamtalojap, now Professor, of , Bacteriology in the Otago University. > Dr. Smith is a, native of Otago,, and received^ his medical education, in the New Zealand and Edinburgh Universities. He qualfied in JO 12 ) and in 3913 obtained the diploma in public liealthNof the Royal Colleges ot physicians and. surgeons of Edinburgh amd Glasgow. The appiontment is regarded as a very satisfactory one. At Edinburgh Dr. Smith was assist ant to Professor Harvey - Littlejohn, Professor of Forensic Medicine.