SCANDAL TO THE COUNTRY
EX-MINISTER'S STATEMENT.: ' (Frost Our Ow Cobbmjohdiht.) WELLINGTON, July 29. !< A scandal to the country and to those w ,ho framed them," was the description given in tho House by Mr Hogg, ox-Min-lrf T ' *.° Native land laws to-day. „f' w '" he said," continued Mr Hogg, ~ Mped to pass them.' I admit that Mens in tho House wheal they were passed. They were brought in in the dying olu '® °f the session, brought before members when they .wore utterly incapacitated for real genuiiio work and Keen for examining them. Clause after c ause was rnslied 1 through committee, and ho laws wero brought into operation.* tlioy wero passed frequently at 2 and 3 and 4 o clock in the morning, when memp s , lrero absolutely bannmbed from want f, . S 'f P' T f (l could not perform their duties. They wore passodi virtually un-. consciously by a House that was stupe, Red by over-work.—(Hear, heir.) Members cannot deny ii.'* '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14899, 30 July 1910, Page 8
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162SCANDAL TO THE COUNTRY Otago Daily Times, Issue 14899, 30 July 1910, Page 8
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