POLITICAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 25, 14 September 1911, Page 4

POLITICAL.

NOTES BY THE WAY. Government business is to. be taken instead of private members’ business on Wednesdays for the remainder of the session. This is the first indication of the approaching pressure which is felt at the end, the “New Zealand Times” says. The session has now been running seVen Ai ; eeks. ; J '‘ ’. ' The Minister of Public Works was asked yesterday by ■ a deputation to provide for a short l ' extension of {ho Waihao railway at' an estimated cost of £20,000. The Minister said ho had no doubt, that the line would pay interest, but as only a certain amount of money could be borrowed each year, all applications must, be,considered on their merits. He : would iplaes the matter before Cabinet'.m » e x The petition of Dr. C. M. Dawson and two other residents of Rarotonga praying that the present Commissioner of the Cook Islands be removed from office and that a Commission of, (Inquiry be set up, was returned by {ho A to L Petitions Committee yesterday to the' House of' Representatives, The committee reported that it 'had ’no recommendation to make upon the petition. ; Mr Arnold is to ask the Minister of Railways whether, as’ an outcome of the satisfactory financial workings of the railways last year and the decision to give various railway concessions to the public, he can now see his way to extend the reduced holiday excursion fares >to tramwaymen on leave, who are deprived of the privilege in consequence of having to work during the holiday season. , I sit h j intends . ,to ask. the. Prime Minister if provision will 1 be made' by the Government that only the certificate of a medical man appointed by the High Commissioner shall bo \ a!id for persons making application for passages to New Zealand.