POLITICAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 27, 16 September 1911, Page 5

POLITICAL.

NOTES BY THE WAY. The Government is to bo asked by Mr. Lang to subsidise any sums raised in country districts for. the provision of .ambulances, so that sufferers may bo conveyed to hospitals for medical attendance in greater comfort and safety than is possible under existing conditions. Mr. Okey is to suggest to the Minister for Defence that lie should draw the attention of the Homo authorities to the fact that a number of those who left the Dominion to do service in South Africa during the late war have received permanent injuries which hinder thorn in making a Jiving, and ascertain whether they will make some provision by way of pension or grant for services rendered to the British Empire at a critical juncture. The “Dominion” states that “a request for a branch railway through South Taranaki, connecting the district of Opunake with the main line, signed by 113 residents of Eltham and the surrounding districts, was presented to the House yesterday by Mr. B. Dive.. Tho petitioners state that-the line would he of great importance. to tho progress and development of South Taranaki and of tiio West Coast of the North Island generally. Further, tho construction would present no great engineering difficulties, and, passing as it would through one of tho most productive districts in the Dominion,' it would pay a high rate of interest on the outlay. A similar petition signed by 129 residents was presented by Mr. Q. V. Pearce.”