NO THIRD PARTY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14132, 6 August 1909, Page 6

NO THIRD PARTY.

Speaking at Napier on Wednesday night, Mr. A. W. Hogg, M.P., said on the two great questions of land administration and finance he had been, as a member of the Ministry, a. square peg in a round hole. He had had to quit that family party, and did not regret having done so. If he had been a square peg in a round hole as a member of the Cabinet, he found that when he met the people he would be likely to exactly fit the place they wanted filled. It had been alleged that he was trying to form a third party, but such a statement was quite unfounded, as he had never communicated such an idea to any other member of the House. What he wanted to see was a good, strong, united Labour party in the country and in the towns, an invincible party determined to push forward the true interests of New Zealand. Such a party should include all who worked with head cr with hand, and should only exclude 'the parasites of greed, and lust, and gluttony that preyed upon labour.

A point of interest to members of the legal profession was discussed on Saturday by a Timaru deputation which waited on the Attorney-General. The question was, what is the position of a man, who was declared a bankrupt by the old District Court, when he applied for his discharge, the District Court having been abolished? Mr. Rolleston, who propounded the question, said that he was of opinion that the case was met by the last section of the District Court Act, but a definite statement from the Hon. Dr. Findlay might be of some assistance. The Minister replied that he had consulted the judges of the Court of Appeal, who had each given the same interpretation of the section as Mr. Rolleston. Their view was that the section transferred from the District Court proceedings of every- kind, bankruptcy included, to the Supreme Court. Where bankruptcy proceedings had been commenced in the District Court the application for discharge could be proceeded with in the Supreme Court, as if it had originated there, and all documents | could be removed to the Supreme Court, I making the registrar the custodian.