LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13225, 30 September 1911, Page 1

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

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Wellington, Sept. 29. I The Legislative Council met at 2.30. ! The Friendly Societies Aiiiciidinent' Hill was read the third time and pass- ' eel. 'i lie debate on the Hon. J. D. Ormond's motion approving of the land ' proposals of the Government was re- • sumed by the Hon. W. W. McCardlo, who referred to early efforts on the part of himself, Mr. It. Brown, and others to secure land in the Forty .Mile Bush. The Government should now adopt some such provision as contained in the Deferred Payment Acts of 1877 and 1879. He desired the Government to financially assist smaller men in the matter of the erection of buildings, etc. on holdings. The Hon. J. McGowan held that the Government ought not to part with any lands. The Hon. J. R. Sinclair approved of the proposals of the Government as they would ensure success of settlement. The Hon J. T. Paul thought the land policy might have been more vigorously prosecuted. He- would make it a criminal oifeneo to spefil;'te :;> land. Oniy by a seioiirifii" graduated tax would a, satisfaetoiy sub-division of land be ensured. Tlic Hon. 11. ¥. AVigram pleaded lor better consideration to men who really desired to become bona lido settlers. He condemned the ballot system. The Hon S. T. George pressed the necessity of settling the Native lands in the North Island. He congratulated the Government on the settlement scheme proposed. Sir John Findlay said the Government appreciated the approval of so old a settler as the Hon. J. D. Ormond. Ho said the scheme as nppli'-'d to the North Island would have a most beneficial effect. The purpose of the Government was to get men with no means at all placed upon the Inn'! so that they could found homes I'm themselves. Settlement with this i\A should go on contemporaneously with public works. I The Hon. J. D. Ormond having briefly replied the motion was oarricrl. The Hon. C. IT. Mills gavo notice to move: "That the members of tha Council are dissatisfied with the crude undignified, and discourteous rep.y given by the Attorney-General yesterday to questions on the order pap'jr respecting the Coronation invitations ; also that the Council is dissatis'ierl with his curt refusal to lay on tho table any papers, correspondence, cr cable relating to the matter to which the Council is entitled, and which refusal is an insult to the Council,"