PARLIAMENT

Southland Times, Issue 17697, 8 July 1914, Page 6

PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF REPRRPEXTATIVES. (Per United Press Association). WELLINGTON'. July T. The House met at 2.110 p.m. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT, Leave was given Mr A. H. Hindmarsh ( Wellington ). to introduce tiie Imprisonment for f.-elu Limitation Amendment Bil!. which was read a first time. ADD RESS-TN-REPL Y. T'iie debate on the Address-in-Reply was resumed by Mr J. H- ESCO fT Pahiatca.). who spoke of the prosperous state of the primary industries. He approved the operation of the Public Service Act, and the proposal to improve the position of teachers and their inin galitri€ , s. It was misrfeprGsco:ation to suv that the Government contemplated the establishment of an independent navy. Air T. E. V. SEDDON (Westland), urged that the Government should give some indication of when the Cost of Living Commission’s report would he discussed. He complained that the Governor’s sp*-ech made no mention of mining legislation. Since the Government came into office there had been n sad railing off in attention to the goldfields. Mr R. SCOTT (Otago Central) knew no* country in the world in which workers were so well off. but the time must come when the overloading of employers by high wages was at an end. It was not onlv high wages but inefficiency of workmen which the employers in both town and country had to contend with. Air L. M. ISITT (Christchurch N.) supported Sir Joseph Ward’s amendment although be did not suppose it would be carried. The Government supporters were so supine and lamblike in their submission that they would submit to anything but what was put forward by their leaders. The one great cry of the Government was “settlement.” more settlement. and still more settlement.” THE EVENING SITTING. I’pon the House resuming at 7.20. Mr ISITT continued his speech. He complained that the small farmers were not represented upon the Agricultural Board, and said that if the House did not carry the no-confidence motion he hoped to see it carried in the country in six months’ time. Air T. W. Rhodes (Thames), Air P. C. Webb (Grey), Mr W. H. D. Bell (Wellington Suburbs), and Mr H. G. Ell (Christchurch South) continued the debate. and the House rose at 12.20 a.m.