THE ALIEN.

Northern Advocate, 23 July 1917, Page 1

THE ALIEN.

QUESTIONS IN PAKLIAMENT,

THE KAWAKAWA CASE,

DR. HAGEN'S STATUS

An interesting question asked in the House by Mr J. Vigor Brown, member for Napier, was: Whether the Government will pass a law to sequestrate all the estates of alien enemies and retain them in their present position where compatible with public safety, and pay them the rates of military pay allowed to members of our fighting forces, using all the balaftpe and accrued profits for the benefit of our sol diers, widows, and dependents? On the same subject the following questions have been put to the Minister for Defence by Mr R. Fletcher: (1) How many Germans are interned on Somes Island? (2) How many Germans are in Wellington who ought to be interned? (3) What is the cost per head to the Government of those interned? (4) Are those Germans employed in useful work; and, if not, why not? In a question of which he gave notice, Mr V. H. Eced (Bay of Islands) stated that Dr. Leopold Kleimen Hagen, M.D., of Wurzberg University, Germany, was recently appointed medical superintendent at the Bay of Islands Hospital, and Dr. Valintine, Inspector-General of Hospitals, after official inquiry held locally, supported the appointment during the period of the war, and made the- above statement in his report. Would the Minister for Public Health, asked Mr Reed, state the evidence upon which the In-spector-General of Hospitals, Dr. Valintine, founded his opinion that the recently-appointed medical superin-