Political Jottings.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6482, 27 September 1892, Page 4

Political Jottings.

(FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER.) Mr Valentine says that hitherto dairy owners have had to take the nak and uncertainty of shipping their own produce, but this season the English firms are sending out their emissaries to buy all our butter and cheese upon the spot, and ship it upon their own account. Captain Russell says that those who talk of old native purchases should look up the old Blue Books. It was the natives' disgust ak finding blocks that had been sold for pennies per acre immediately re-sold by Government at 10s per acre T 2000 per centum— that drove them to private purchasers, Government agents were specially instructed to beat them down. Mr Rees s»ys that we have spent L 1,200,000 under the Public Works Policy in the purchase of native lands, and of this sum L 400.000 represents expenses. The remedy is tribal purchases made direct by the Minister, as opposed to individual purchases through native agents. . . The other day^he Minister for Agriculture told Mr Valentine that if he could show him how to procure an expert capable of carrying on instruction hi the dairy industry beyond the stage reached at present, he would engage him. Mr Valentine has been making enquiries, and finds that such a man would be sent on application to an American firm, which has had much dealing with the United States Government, and which has supplied England and Scotland with experts capable of doing what he considers the present expert could not do — of teaching the most advanced of our factory managers. It is aaid that the only stonewall that hat «rer taken place in the Council was one engineered by Sir John Hall. It is therefore pointed out as a coincidence that the stonewall now threatened is againsk a pet proposal of Sir John's. Mr T. Mackenzie says that Mr Hunter, a Glasgow expert just out, told him that some of the Otago and Southland factorymade butter could not be surpassed any where in the world. Dr. Newman thinks that as the Government are converting the Public Trustee into a sort ot universal provider, they had better declare by proclamation that he shall run this country. Mr Tainua was very severe — inferentially —on Government hangers on. After saying that he knew natives who had lost LBOO or L9OO through an officer whom he named, he added that the discredit of such things fell on the Government, for, he said, "they select their officers only from their own companions, whereas it is only the uprightness of the person which should be considered " which was positively rasping when you come to think it out very hard. The Dairy Industry Bill requires that every Inspector "shall have full acces9, egress, and ingress" to "all cars, vessels, cans, and steamers used for the manufacture, storage, and carriage or transit; of milk, cream, cheese, or butter." Mr Fish and Mr G. Hutchison think this will be rather trying to a full-bodied Inspector —say, a budding Minister for Larjdswho, if he succeeded in obtaining "ingress" to an average milk can, might find some difficulty in obtaining " egress " therefrom, while in the case of a bottle or jug, for instance (which would come under the definition of " vessel "), the poor man's difficulty in carrying out the Act would be increased.