POLITICAL NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14239, 4 July 1910, Page 6

POLITICAL NOTES.

Mr G. W. Russell is introducing a Bill to provide for the election of the Legislative Council on the popular francluse, hut in larger electorates each electing two members; the first election to be for threo years, at the end of which the member who received the fewer votes to drop out, the other to sit for six years. Mr Russell proposes that the Council should be half the number of the House, which would require that four electorates for the Lower House be combined to make one for the Upper House. After the first election there would be one member to elect »t each triennial election. The Hon. J. T. Paul thinks the St. Helen's Hospitals are doing very good work, but the nurses they turn out are so highly trained that they are useless to the poor man, because they want some one to wait on them I

The Land Acts are very confusing, said Mr Craigie; we should wipe the slate of the whole lot of them. We must keep our compacts, but should make a fresh start. Every acre of land we acquire as freehold should be kept a State freehold for ever. lam n leaseholder to the backbone. Mr Massey said Mr Craigie had Riven a fair illustration of the spurious Liberalism of Government followers who wanted freehold for themselves but leaseholds for others. The members of the Opposition held freehold themselves, and were willing to concede the privilege to everyone else.