PARLIAMENT

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 85, 5 July 1928, Page 5

PARLIAMENT

ADDRESS-1 N-RE PLY,

THE DEBATE OPENED.

MOVED BY MB.. F. WAITE.

Press Association —Copyright! WELLINUTON, Last JSight.l When the House of Uepreastativev at i; 7.aoi to-night, Mr. I»V'Wniie ;ijQutha) moved that a respectful ail-' dres s bo presented, to His Excellency's speech. Mr, Waite paid a tribute 1 to the Governor-General and Lady Alice Fergnsson in setting such a logo example to th e people ; of New Zealand ' in their intermit in public wel.lii.xv I

>! Mr. Waite expressed tho warmest “approval of Mr. F. B. Kellogg’s ‘- peace treaty which, he said, was particularly welcomed at the present time.

* So far as New Zealand wag concerned it wa& to our interest tb ,J ia.il

■ ’into, line with the treiity to war, because otu* country did 1 not coil- ' sist merely of tho, North and South

Islands; its confines were now far

extended and qiir responsibilities were ' correspondingly extended. Tbis'ip- * volved the administration of Samoa, where no one need be surprised' ip find trouble existing. To buy copra ' cheaply and) sell bad liquor defirly

had for many years been the purposp •of certain people, and interference > ; was naturally resented. The coinemission bad, however, vindicated the 'administration, and he believed ; ' could ■ await' the finding- of -the ■ Mali- ' > Commission Iwith every' Confidence. i

EMPIRE TRADE. ? Tipde the Empire was urg-

<ed, becausp British goods could airways ho relied on for quality, while British workers were more likely to CanSume'New Zealand products athafl Were' their foreign competitors;- ’Britain c'oufd not give ils preference in the same way as we could give it to 1 her, hut.,she was meeting us in other ways, notably in the Empire market- ' ing scheme* : ..' ’ Approval of: the .recent national in■pu dustnid conference- called, by y. -Prime Minister was expressed, . It , was too much to expect that the, 501 v,,. v ,,. lition of , all ..conflicting ]prohlera)s 1 could, hie ‘found as. the result of 'the negotiations of such a conference. ’ Rural finance’ was progressing .faydur- ' ' / ahly', ; i'ldly, the sectirity being; generally con'bhijl'ei’ed good. 'That part of ; termediate Credit. Act which provided : ifor the ..formation of (associations )wap a success, especially in the North Isl- . land, thus falsifying the predictions -, ofithei critics of .the Act.

UNEMPLOYMENT. Unemployment was a problem which depended upon many causes and was ) ‘a'difficulty which came no matoejr Government was in power, cop- ’ 'tinned Mr.-Waite. The first gapg.ojf unemployed was employed i at Shorthand Orescent,! in Auckland, and ' employedf in 1842. Ever , since .the uif . -.(employed - had been with iw. Vhfo Vas no .cause at all for' complaint); ’the onlv way to cope with it was to 'find 1 suitable work for those able to

undertake it. , y'jftr •Wait© was glhd to see* agrif 'cultural education wa s coming into jits u- We wanted trained farmers rather 1 than doctors and lawyers of whom we already have more u-than enough. He predicted a t>ermd .. * c f prosperity of the people, r e was ' to see that tho Government ' was . endeavouring to preserve a fair 9 balaAce all section* « the " people by legislation for all alike.

' MILITARY TRAINING. gjj,. A. Bell (BUy of Islands), m ~ „econdto ß the motion, ©Wo Ins W Irwal to,the pence'proposals. At the same .hme , people should, not be lulled! into a SJL of false security, as we were ’‘before 19U. Ho therefore approved Of the compulsory mihtaiy * -g voU th -from which nothing but - *ld could come. Ho regretted the , attitude of the Opposrtum tovauls :. t'T* * Mr. 801 l advocated » free ' , d movement, mthool M ver !«'> ■JI clauM embod-t st :» e f -- —t ■ssrst * ponsibility for 10 ,, r ? he yaud Am I ttlia the positron w*. land, ana auk . Zea . cir» fliqn pvgf. i Hd it was seven time, better than "t w , Tn America: Much could to jt was m position ot the W . iTT- remodelling of the country by H* Customs Arbitration Court, , (1 ... + i,,, necessaries of nte, •» vthe (abolition of which undoubted Y He. Jidvo" i * he t Itto payhrent by the Government , :"t p i - or classes ot land, „„ the , T he debate p; Holland,.T*erwler motion ot Mr- r . .the House rose till >