WELLINGTON TOPICS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1929, Page 2

WELLINGTON TOPICS

TRIBUTE TO LABOUR. ' WELL DESERVED PRAISE. ' (Special Correspondent.) '•II V i ‘ i ■ i WELLINGTON, September 26 ; ‘ The •“ Post the other evening paid. 1 1 ’ a well deserved tribute to Mr H. E. !l ’ u Holland, the leader of the Labour ;■ Party, and his followers, who naye .consistently deprecated ;• the waste of ~'"y time that has markedlthe first Session ;'' n ( of 'the new Parliament. ;. *■'One, pf the >!‘> ; ; strongest advocates;of sensible methods of conducting parliamentary business,” ■'<!' it said, “ is ithe leader of tlie; Labour Party. He has protested time withoutnumber against late night arid' ;!l ° legislation by exhaustion.” But riven . / Mr Holland has been constrained to - i '.’ \ admit that “as the: House was going ' on the new. standing orders were ,J 1 bound to break down.” This would be ' M,; a catastrophe for which, half a dozen members, who are always .itching to . get into “Hansard” or into the newspapers, would be responsible.-. These ' ■ offenders, the “ Post ” points out; need to be reminded . that, Parliament has not been called together to decide > a. party.'fightphut to consider Treasures V- -for the better government of the coiin- > .'I try.' -Even so the reminder would re* quire to. be expresoed in very emphatic f : •ternis.. • ''

MR HOLLAND’S ADVANCE. At a! set-off to the compliment paid • the leader of the Labour Party by thp ‘‘.Post!’ the morning paper twits Mr ■ Holland with having renounced His socialistic professions'and gone over .to rhe enemy. “He has/’ it. says, “ developed quite a tender solicitude for the Liberal s-cum-Natio n a 1 ists-cu m-Un i teds, on whom he used to heap scorn arid reproaches, and by his support keeps in power to-day a party which not a year ago was anathemato him,”; Drawing Mr Ramsay H|(icDpna|d * into its tirade the * ‘ Dominion/ ’' says ’ it’ would be to rest off a ftjjsp,- secißity toi suppose>that Mr RoHand; any .more than Mr MacDoqtdd; has lpgt youthful and ' dangerous '■ enthusiasm; 4 4 Give h im. but the • leastchanW ... to * function unfetterfet},-; it' f. eimplia siasep, “and Mr Holland;-,would be away. ; .on the old precipitous,’trail.” . Proverbially people; whd.Hever- cHqnge their ffiihds are fools, and the' morping paper should remember that twenty , yeprp ago Mr Massey was loudly denouncing legislation which.- he - subsequently warmly espoused. The great Reformer was neither fool nor- trimmer.' 1 - : STONEWALLING. Thd ’stonewall fin the House of Representatives yesterday morning was not a very impressive exhibition. Just what •dvniitage the leader of the Opposition ’■ J "‘ and his followers hoped to achieve by holding up the. ‘estimates of the Agri* cidUral Department never was very dear. .Mr H. S. S. Kyle, the member for Kiccarton; Mr. J. C. Nash, tlie . inomber for Palmerston North; Mr A. M. Samuel, the member for Thames; and Mr C. E. MacMillan, the member for Tauranga were in the forefront of the obstructionists, while the less push,, ing member for Waitemata, the mem? . bor for Hauraki and the member, ter Christchurch North served as temporary supports. Mr Coates-'' •evidently (countenanced the proceedings but lie V left most of .tlie talking to . the rank and file of his party. He rose to oppore ! the notion of the Prime Minister that urgency should be accorded to the re- / maining clauses on the accepted I'.fit: gi .but was reminded by the Speaker that fl oio discussion was allowed on a question of urgency, and a little patheti- ' cally resumed his seat. WOMEN POLICE. ?.»•< The deputation rep resepteg the Na- ■ • tional Council of Women of New Zea- • ' land that waited upon tlie Minister of •••' justice,, the Hon. T.. M, Wilford, yesmci terday to urge the appointment of women police fared nc better \Aian had - the previous deputations with a similar .■’vi mission. The Minister listened very k* ' attentively-, to the case submitted to him bv Mrs Fraer,. Mrs Stone and Miss Melville, of Auckland; but he was unv- moved in his contention that it was women patrols ancl not women police the community required. The women patrols, he maintained, could do much ' useful work throughout the country to the benefit of the whole community; but he feared that women police under present conditions would be placed at a ti; disadvantage. The Minister urged the 10 members of the deputation to concentrnte tlieir efforts upon the establishment of women patrols and to await the results of the experiment before launching upon the bigger' and 10 more hazardous undertaking. It canrot be said that the ladies were elated by the Minister’s attitude, but it is not unlikely they will accept his halfioaf.