SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.
AN AMBITIOUS PROPOSAL
(Bμ Telegranh—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, Last Night
The effort being made by Mr A. E. Glover, M.P. for Auckland Central, to induce the Government to consider the transference of the seat of Government back to Auckland, is supported by the President of the Auckland Chamber of Commeice (Mr B. Kent). "The seat of Government," says Mr Kent, "should never have been shifted from this city; but in any case the causes which led to the transference no longer exist. The isolation of the city has been removed by the opening of the Maiu Trunk Line, aud it would be an admirable thing, from every point of view, if the seat of Government were in Auckland. We have ample room for the accommodation of the respective Houses, and as a new House of Parliament is to be erected, the time seems quite opportune for the question to be very seriously considered. Although some members of the House, in their attempts at sarcasm, asked where Auckland was. to men who live in a haystack only one advice can be given: to come out into the world, and know where Auckland is, and they will never want to leave it."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9700, 3 November 1909, Page 6
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202SEAT OF GOVERNMENT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9700, 3 November 1909, Page 6
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