POLITICAL NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 609, 8 October 1913, Page 5

POLITICAL NOTES.

EX-CONSTABLE'S PETITION

The M to Z Petitions Committee reported to the House on the petition of ex-Con3table Charles Gordon Smyth, of Oamaru, for reinstatement in the Police Force "No recommendation" is the verdict of the committee, which the House endorsed without discussion.

MR WILSON ON AGGP.EGATON. In speaking on the Land Bill in the House, Mr Wilson claimed that the Government had solved the most important part of the land problem by giving the right to the freehold. It was necessary, however, to give

easier term; to induce settlement. Risks had to be taken, but the Premier was trying honestly to assist the to get on the land. "1 with the Premier on the reauestion," went .in Mr Wilson, who expressed the conviction that a penal clause was the only way out ofVne difficulty. Unless a penal clause were provided for, reaggregation would continue.

A ROAD LIABILITY. Delegates cf local bodies upon whom will fall the burden of the cost of the new Hutt road waited on the Premier on Monday afternoon to ask what the Government intended to pay as its share. Ths Mayor of Fetcne remarked that bis council could not possibly meet its allocation, and the Government might have to put in an official raceiver. Mr Massey said a new commission might be appointed, which would consider fresh facts and decide what proportion the local bodies should pay. He promised to bring the matter before Cabinet in the near future. THE WAIUFIU RAILWAY. A Waiuku deputation waited on the Hon. Mr Fraser on Monday morning, and urged prosecution of a branch railwav line to Waiukr. The Prime Minister introduced the deputation. Mr Fraser pointed out that trial surveys had already been made via Fatumahoe, one to'Pserata, the other to Pukekohe, and explained that a further survey was now being made with the object of discovering if the route could be shortened and an injurious intersection of farms avoided. He said he could afford no explanation re garding financial provisions for the line till the Public Works Statement was brought down. Other iines had to be considered, but the Waiuku line would not be forgotten. He hoped to make some provision for the line.