PARLIAMENT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17936, 1 November 1918, Page 6

PARLIAMENT.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. . Thursday, October 31. • AFTERNOON' SITTING, , The Council met, at 2.30. ADDRESS-IN-REPLY. The Hon J. B. Gow continued the debate ,on the Address-in-Reply. He said he did not anticipate the difficulties raised by some people in connection with repatriation. The soldiers nould- be absorbed without difficulty. Ho suggested tho establishment of institutes in the cities to provide accommodation for children who had come from the country to complete their education.

The Hon W. H. Triggs emphasised the n-icd' of the Dominion continuing to pay attention to the Defence system after the war. Settlement of soldiers on the land should be part of a comprehensive colonisation scheme with a •view to increasing production by settlement of new lands, not, segregating the soldiers from the rest of the community. He suggested settlement on readymade farms, as in Canada. The Hon G- 1 J.- Garland advocated increased pay to school teachers and the abolition of tho overlapping secondary education system. The Hon H. L. Michel hoped that there would be a. coalition of the best men of all parties for the settlement, of post-war problems H© urged greater activity in increasing gold production. The debate was adjourned at 5 p.m.