BITS FROM HANSARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12928, 26 July 1905, Page 1 (Supplement)

BITS FROM HANSARD.

I am not a walking encyclopaedia.—Mr. Seddon. ,j This country should set its face rigidly against the suspension of law by the Executive.—Mr. Bedford. Wo never can get the details of the public expenditure during the session, and I say we ought to have it..— Massey. In the part of the colony which I represent the people of the country towns close at reasonable hours.—Sir J. 6. Ward. I think flogging should be part of the sentence, especially - in oases of assault upon women and children.—Hon. Mr. Beehan. In regard to the education question generally, he could safely say that there was not a satisfied school-teacher, as far as he knew, in the colony to-day.— Taylor. They wanted a Minister for Education who had not an intermittent desire to attend to this Department, but a real and deep affection for the matters connected with education,—Mr. Taylor. It is monstrous to think thai we should have to pay for goods being brought from the United Kingdom to New Zealand at the rate of £2 10s per ton when they are brought from the United States at 12s per ton.—Mr. Flat-man. - There is one' portion of His Exoellency's address with which I dare say a good many who have read it will differ, and that is where he says that "contentment and happiness obtain everywhere."— Hogg. I say the colony can prove its loyalty quite as well if we are represented in London by a plain, straight-going business man as we oafi by a man who is anxious to hobnob with the British aristocracy and who wears a Windsor uniform on every possible occasion. Mr. Massey. One old lady, who was bedridden, said she was very pleased to tell me that during the time she had received the old' age pension she. had managed to save up £1 10s towards her funeral expenses, as she wished to be no burden on the colony after her departure.Mr. Flatman. The people of the colony are entitled to an explanation why it is that the coal which [he State ought to be producing for the benefit of our young industries, to help the manufacturer and the artisan, and to assist the people in our cities who a.re dependent on coal for their warmth and light, is not being worked by State enterprise instead of being exploited by private companies. Hogg. We are constructing railways at the rate of a mile a year, and at a cost of from £7000 to £8000 a mile. In many of the outdistricts, where road metal is scarce, and the people are suffering from the want of means of communication, it would be better to go in for light lines, and l to build six miles instead of one, than to go on as we are doing now.Mr. Massey. I should like to know whether the Premier has gone round on the land question, as he has gone round on some other questions to which I have referred. _ . have no doubt whatevor in my own mind that as scon as ever the right honourable gentleman finds that the majority of electors are in favour of giving the freehold he will be of that opinion also, whatever his own convictions on the subject may be.—Mr. Ma3sev.