POLITICAL NOTES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13427, 8 July 1914, Page 4

POLITICAL NOTES.

YESTERDAY'S WORK. ____..

I (From Our .Parliamentary Reporter.) WiLLnJGTQN, tins day. , The day's business yesterday promised to dlien' with & dramatic item ; but Mr iTayne "fra-sso respectful m his. defiance, [and t_he!^ouse, so v mid^pionsti*atiy ( c. hi its I pynishmeiit, tha,t tlie _^hole unfortunatp j business was : over before most people realised the fact. One Bill was read a first, lime, th© Imprisonment * for. Debt Abolition Bill.olr ( ,Hi^dniarshJ, andstlm Miiiisfcfei* of Ma,riiie 'gave notice' to' ihtrodufce tt Harbors Act Amendment' Bill. I Th<*L lio-confidence :dSb&t6' apjpeSi-ed " to be dragging last . week* .b.ut.tpere, is plenty | bf latent speech-making m the" House, and Zylr Isitt gave things a good fillip yesterday. The most interesting among i Ministerial followers speeches, by reason of its unexpectedness,, was Mr Bell's declaration that .he.dkl. nbt. see, eye. v to eye with the Government ' m its little local navy policy.. Men. could be better traijiecl iii tlie big n'i-vy. and ships Out m New Zealand would bo ineffective 'iii deletuje., .Mr Ell was^tlio •■ last speaker, arid the House rose shortly after midnight-' " ,-, '„ k. Emigration suggestion.

Appealing 'for a more vigorous systeih for inducing . desirable x immigrants. . the member , for. . Central Otago, . ,Mr Scott, contended' , tliat the Government must, hi the interests of the country's .development, v give more attention to ' tho 'introduction of an adequate supply of domestic and farm labor. ,The land especially I was calling, continually for a, larger..sup!ply pi'lkboi-", lie said, and proceeded [to suggest that a system might i be stai*t[ed whereby not only- farm^ laborer^ from the Old Country might Le induced tp come ©ut, but a supply be obtained from European countries. also. Why not encburago suit|i.ble workers from Switzerland, Denmark- Npjway, llplland> >and other North European; couiitries to tajicb up t-hoir lot m. New Zealand,.. and thus fill the g&ft due to. an insufficienti supply of fia-rm -labor from Great* Britain? he asked.. Ho expressed, the opinion that such difficulties as language apd naturalisation would soon be overcome, and that by obtaining such immigrants the Dominion woiild benefit m the possession of good and useful citizens.

THE BREWERS' FRIENDS. "Which side' <lb tiifewirs snppbrt!" is a question often bandied between the Government/and Opposition benches, and Mr Is^itt added his effective piece to they- discussion, last evenmg. ,;He, had been led to look into the matter. .by tf ie Prime Minister's declaration m Christchurch that the Liberals were supported by ..the brewers. "Ihave. taken -the trouble to go through the shareholders' list of the two chief breweries iri Christchurch," he said.. "Tiiere are 50. names on ,th»j>se lists, and there are not: four, men on it who are not known as Mr Massey's supporters. (Oppositionists : Oh! on!) lam prepared to submit this

ljst to inspection,; aiid ybu' will 'find on it my bitter opponents', friend Witty's bitter r opponents,-;.. and*; those .who ire against the res,t of the Liberal . candidates jiii Christchurch," strong staunch supporters of Reform, the party that represents monopolies; of every kind and class."- ',- „,* „..r,r i. .-» ; - , r.- -