TAUPO-TOTARA PETITION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 17, 12 September 1912, Page 5

TAUPO-TOTARA PETITION.

TRADES’ COUNCIL’S OBJECTION

(Per Press Association.> Wellington, September 12. At to-day’s enquiry into the Taupo Totara Company’s petition, it war stated on behalf of To Hen Hen and his people, who have large land interests in Taupo, that they supported the amended petition. A statement embodying the Wei lington Trades’ Council’s objections was put in. The statement concludes “We respectfully submit that the oil giaal proposal was conceived in thi lust for wealth, without labour or service, and brought forth as the twin brother of railway monopoly, whirl the company is prepared to offer as i verifies to the State on the condi tion that its lusty twin brother, lane, monopoly, is clothed frith the sane. tion of Parliament. Wo ask the Committee to stifle both, and in conclusion wo regret that it is a condition proce dent to interment that the country should bo put to the expense of another inquest. On this point we draw the attention of the Committee that Parliamentary costs in an Act of the Imperial Parliament, as a model to bo fallowed in such cases.