QUERIES AND QUANDARIES

NZ Truth, Issue 973, 19 July 1924, Page 6

QUERIES AND QUANDARIES

"Truth Would Like To Know—

What caused the recent upward movement m brewery shares? What a Parliamentary dissolution would be worth at the present tune to. the liquor trade (conferring on tiic trade a pro- . bable five years tenure instead of three years)? And whether a rich trade ever before depended upon the fan,cy of two or three members of Parliament as tc- whether the trade shoAd get another two , years', lease of life?.\. .Who wili win the race between Vy Howard Elliott -, and Harry Holland for f the Loyalty Stakes? / Who told Mr..,Massey to wet blanket the scheme of State insurance under the Workers' Compensatiqn Act? *;* Whethoc. the yihllllori to b? * sjSeh't at Arapuni ljydro -electrical -station will prove welcome iri alleviating monetary stringency m the ..rather over-boomed Waikato? -What Nurmi: will .got for placing Finland on the map? v Whether New Zealand was not lucky m discovering, va world s champion sprinter m Porritt, who gave, his country 4 . Olympic points (still .ope point behind . Argentina: at last reckoning) ? And whether this neck-and>'iieck go between the r>orninion aiid Argentina is a reflex of what is.happeriirigfvin the meat trade? '**.■-.*.; ' , J/,;Whether the extension of the moratorium and the rent ; restrictions would pr oy e tj .. the gerieral advantage ' of", the public, or; evfen of , the particular sections specially concerned ?, , .£ ,^ ; Whether Hr. Mcieod,vkhe rie^MiriC ister of Lands, will bring to the 1 MinisV terial -side of debate a definlteness now lacking?. At the least, does not his V j jump Into: the question of rural infla- - tion and .rural .credit (of which 'Mr. Lysnar's Poverty Bay jgrievance is an offshoot) encourage the hope that ne *'. will have something, to say on things * that really matter? ; "Although one may accept . Colonel-'. Allen Bell's statement that he neveiv "v/tnked" at Mi*; Vernon Reed's appointment to the ; Upper House, would v" riot the Colonel have "blinked" if Ver- x non had missed the elevator? ./'*.' 3 Whether the return asked for by Mr. M. J. Sayajge (Labor), showing the *. ' number .Of deaths- under anaesthetic, •'• will reveal the whole extent of the -' evil ? , Will it include all- those Parlla- , mentarlans who have been so" chlord- - formed by political poison gas that ' 5 they have died on their legs, and now, ' revolve automatically round the mag- '■ 5 . ■ ■ net of the monthly cheque? ' Why the. stateriient m the daily -y papers that the estimated expenditure • on the Zoo for the current year ia i £4700 did not give us the estimated revenue? . ■■',:/[ Why so many stall-attendants at * the Winter Show were permitted to set : ' a bad example by disregarding the. '"" placards: "No smoking"? , . ' •'Will recent happenings m a Wellington Women's Club assist m securing the. passage of the Women Justices of the Peace Bill through Parliament? -y xy. Whether anyone will contradict Harry Hollands statement at the welcome to the. Chinese Soccer team, that "sport was one of the finest elements m the national life of a country" and ; "there was no greater factor making for the peace, of the world than th« ,; agency of sport"? We are pleased to see, Harry joining with us m our opposition to the inculcation of the doctrine of "class consciousness." For' you can't beat sport at wiping out the... "class-conscious" twaddle. Whether there is any better doctrine to preach than that ,-' of "Play the Game" V . „ : • .■■ '■v^•^eri'■''Minister. Coates and' LibefalLabour Leader Wilford were seen voting together - in" the House early on Friday morning (against the Religious Exercises m School, Bill);v was It for the last time? The: Prirhlnister -was m "the other lobby on this non-party vote. < ' ' " "