PARLIAMENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 29 October 1912, Page 5

PARLIAMENT

(~Pf>r "Pre-.s Association.) WELLINGTON. October 28. Tho House met at 7-30. The Shops and Offices Bill was read tho second time pro forma, and referred to the Labour Bills Committee. THE LAND BILL. 'Mr. Massey moved the third readingoii tho Land Bill. Mr. Tsitt said he was happy in the belief that tho Bill would be the undoing of the men responsible for it, and it would stand on the Statute Book to their shame, a monument of their innate Toryism, and of their unworthy determination to purchase votes by any and every means. Mr." Russell said the policy of the Goi rernment in connection with land legislation had been one of tinkling, and did not conduce to increased settlement of land as a whole, except to a. very limited extent. The granting of the freehold to holders of 33 years' renewable lenses was an act of spoliation which, he believed, would no down as a blot upon the legislation of the Massey Government. A motion by Mr. Sidey to re-com-mit tho Bill for the purpose of providing that tho Limitation of area provision in part 13 of tho Lnnd Act/1908. shall apply to all lands disposed of. was not dismseed. and was Inst by 35 to 20. Mr. Laurenson wanted to know what wias the good of talking about pettlin^ lands ivhon two-thirds of the land in Hawke's Bay and M.irlboro-iio;h wero owned by n, few r>f*r«nle? Some peonlotboivebt that nil that mattered were sheer* and ows and horses. Ho objected to tho "Rill Tieormso it trns rp^rt'onary. ami thn country h.tr>k twenty years. Mr. Wilkinson nv<?"r\ ihnt rnoro onconrnrromont phoiiV? bo jrirpn to the v/mnp; yr-^n o f Now Zealand to go on bu«h lp.r>r]s. Mr. MfCaHiiTn hoprvl tho Council n-^nVI <If»p.l with fho Bin on its Tnorits. TTo Vn,i no confiloncf in tho measure orpTipi-flllv. Hnrinn snir| th^ T5!11 nwiM nn|, to t.^q *ynt!+, +l, rt nro'oc^'rmn nf t)i<\ /?n vr i rT ,_ Tv.^nt on Innrl on^sf Inn, nrifT b« nn'7i. or] nf. ttmo wont on +'i^tt imuM *i!>vo to nTi.r?l fbn n-rOTior oo^^i+to/f n^l^pr -jf.^ A ft^>r -roiflnifbt fb** /liw"'.cp!oTi nrt t^A fTi'i/Tmoi-cTi. At'Moro, pr\i] "Yntirto1, Tho third rno^ini' «">«? " (Left sitting.)