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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8942, 17 December 1907, Page 4

There is a right way and wrong way of dealing with the question of rebuilding our Parliamentary houses, and the Government seems to have adopted the wrong way. At the Cabinet meeting held in Wellington, yesterday, it was decided that the next session of Parliament should be held in temporary premises to be pro-

vided at the site of the old bnildiugs. The details of the scheme have not yet been decided on, but arrangements will, it is stated, bo fixed by the time the session is due to commence. As to the proposed new building, Sir Joseph Ward states that the whole question will bo submitted to Parliament when it meets in the ordinary course. This is decidedly the wrong way. If the Government had taken the right way it would have submitted to members a definite and reasonable proposal, either by a letter to each member, or by convening a special meeting of members early in the year for the sole purpose of determining the question. We take it that the Cabinet itsolf is divided as to the propor course to be pursued, and that consequently the work of re-building is hung up indefinitely.