HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 21 October 1914, Page 8

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Mr Wilford asked leave to introduce I the Horticultural Industries Bill. The Premier stated that the Government had almost an identical Bill.on the Order Paper, which would be almost certainly passed this year. Leave to introduce the Bill was refused. 1 The Premier moved the second reading of the Land Bill, which he explained was mainly of a machinery nature, designed to facilitate carrying cut -the land policy of the Government. Mr McDonald contended that the giving of the freenold to certain classes of settlers did not increase settlement. The Government ought to have gnen more attention to small dairying lauds and mo poorer classes of our pastoral lands. Ivlr 5."-Newman urged that greater' attention be given t2 afforestatlQn as a means of developing the poorer pv;nuce lands. Mr Ell claimed that all the forces that brought about an increase in settlement were in force when the present .Government came into office. Thjev wei'@ limply reaping the benefit of their predecessors' work. The debate was continued all tho afternoon and evening. Shortly after one o'clock, the Fremier rose to reply, characterising the debate as stale, flat, and unpvo>ltable, the criticism being simply a iepe! yon of the old misrepresentation they had heard ever since the Goveramynt «n>e into office. j The Bill was then read a second t-roe. The National Provident R\md Bill was put through committee without fmendment, read a third time, and passed/ The House rose at 1.50 a.:>i.