POLITICAL NOTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, Issue 17693, 6 July 1927, Page 9

POLITICAL NOTES.

POINTS FROM PARLIAMENT. (Special to the “Herald.”) WELLINGTON, July 5. LAMB MORTALITY. Mr T. D. Burnett has given notice to ask the Minister of Agriculture what progress his Department has made in its investigations into the causes of what is known as “big lamb mortality,” and if there is any further information it can supply to sheepowners at the present time that they can apply to the management of their flocks, so as to reduce the mortality. GETTING THINGS DONE. Member* of the House showed much interest when Mr E. A. Ransom (Pahiatua) stated in the Ad-dress-in-Reply debate ' to-night that he would like to know whether a man who had gone to the Prime' Minister about obtaining an advance had come back with the money in his pocket. Mr Ransom said that a farmer known to him had to come to Wellington about getting a State Ad- , vances loan, and when he had got back to his district he said that, after seeing the Prime Minister and making personal representations to the Prime Minister, he had returned with the money in his pocket. Did that mean that one person got preference over another If he applied to the Prime Minister personally? Mr Coates: “Where did he get the money?” Mr Ransom: “The State Advances Department.” Mr Coates: “Is the hon. gentloman certain?” • Mr Ransom replied in the affirmative, and said that the man had got the money about a month ago. Mr Coates: “Is he perfectly certain that he applied under the Rural Credits system?” Mr Ransom: “He applied to the Advances to Settlers Branch. I met him outside the post office at Dannevirke, and he asked me if the Prime Minister was in Wellington. I said that I did not know, but that if he rang up he qould soon find out. Afterwards he went to Wellington, saw the Prime Minister, and came back with thd money in his pocket. (Laughter.) “That is the man who gets things done.” (Laughter.)