MEMBER FOR CHRISTCHURCH NORTH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16120, 8 July 1914, Page 8

MEMBER FOR CHRISTCHURCH NORTH.

DIGNITY OF PARLIAMENT.

CFeom Oub Own Cobbespondkjt.)

WELLINGTON, July 7

VThere ie probably no man in tho House ... ; ojE, Eepresentativee -who is more respected •.> and admired for hie sound common sense and •■* scientific attainmente than Mr G. M. ThomsbiV y*t m sp 6 ** o /to-night Mr Isitt referred to him as "a pedantic erudite fosMr Isitt, moreover, said he did not ' wieh to be too hard in hie remarks, and just a few minutes previously he had been talking, in answer to an interjection, about : upholding the dignity of Parliament. sc'.Mr Isitt referred to the statement made ■j seine- time ago by Mr Maesey that the '' were against him. Mr Maesey: Three-fourths of them.

Mr Isitt eaid he had taken the trouble to get the share lists of the two principal breweries in Ghristchurcfti, and he declared tiiat there were not four men in the whole list that were not Known as supporters of Mr Massoy. He wae quite prepared to produce those lists and to lay them oh the table of the House, and yet Mr MSfcsey eaid the brewers were against him. He :{Mr leitt) asserted that they were with him.

An Hon. Member: That's not so—in Parliament anyhow.