POLITICAL NOTES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14341, 10 July 1914, Page 5

POLITICAL NOTES.

JOTTINGS FROM THE HOUSE. A STRIKE CHARGE. MR Mi(,'OMHS AND THE PRIME MINISTER. (Hy Telegraph.--Special to Herald.) WELLINGTON, July 9. The whole of an hour’s well-reasoned spetea, demined in a deliberate, uneni itio..ai fashion, was devoted by Mr J. Me, (mbs (Lyiteltou) this evening to a discussion oi the waterside strike. Ho alleged that the Employers' Association hi ought the Waihi miners under contracts to as to rob them of the henelits of tha .vrb.trillion Act. 'this was a lovely policy in view of their enthusiasm for the Arbitiatioa I niuji. \> lu-n the waterside workers' strike occur led Sir Joseph Ward wan shouldered out of the peace negotiation!} for political lea.-ons, and Mr Pirani ("Relunn" Candida.e lor u uuganui) and Mr Aehlaml (“Reform" candidate fur Auckland) were ] romineiit among the men who "sailed" on the shipping companies to rep, et terms on widen tiny had almost agieed. "1 charge the Prime Minister with the ic poiisn ilily for the continuance of the stiike irom November 3rd onwards." declared Mr McCombs. "He had an opportunity, but lor political reasons, at tin; d:c a ion of a political group, he infused to seltle it in order io make political capital out of it at the election. Was there any talk of forcing the emphyers io hold a secret ballot among tlio hundreds of thousands of business jieople who suffered as a lestilt of the conflict to deride whether it should continue!' Their (,'hridmas trade was spaded, and all that suffering was imposed u; on them by a. plot, in which the Prime Minister of New Zealand ha 1 a pait, to continue the industrial conflict for political purposes." MAILS ON THE WANGANUI.

Mr Veiteh lias asked 1 Jit* PostmasterGeneral what an alignment ho intends to make for flip carriage of mails on the ■Wanganui liivor and its tributaries after the termination of the present contract, which will expire on thu It let March, 1915.

UAimill LINE SURVEY. Mr Veiteh wishes the Minister of Public Works to inform him if there is now an oilier of his Department available to •carry out the long-promised trial survey of the proposed Paetihi-We.ngunui railway. HIHLE-IN-FCHOOL.S. A re ond petilion was presented by Mr Veiteh in the House this afternoon, signed ly IPU residents of Wanganui, praying the llou-e to reject the Referendum proposal rein ing to BiUe-reading in schools, and to maintain the existing free, compulsory, and secular system of education. LABOURITE AND POLITICAL HYPOCRICV.

In his characteristic, way trio member for Wellington East, Mr Hindmarsh, dealt caustically in the House this afternoon with a class of people ho dubbed political hypocrites. “It is the presence of men like the member for Waikato in this House which brings about all this friction,’' lie said. “lie stood against tha Native Minister only a few years ago."

S ; r Joseph Ward; ‘'And ran him down whnloKiilo.”

Mr Hindmarsh: “Ha lias supported every warty in New Zealand. He finds be is n political hypcrite, and trios to reduce everyone to his own level. Evidently Hr. Pomare’s conscience pricks him too. nr lie would not have protested as ho does.”

Tho Labour member suggested that Dr. Pomaro’s sneer at the Southern Maori member representing only 240 Maoris camo well from the party which repealed tho second ballot, leaving tho first past tho post svstem. He knew % sheep-farmer who fold him that he gave a man .£7O to come out in the Ucform interest to split votes.

EUROPEANISED MAORI’S SWIFT CAREER.

The Europeanising of the Maori, whieh can be effected by an Act passed by the present Government, is not regarded favourably by the Southern Maori member, Mr Chat. Parala. He says a fair deal has not been served out in this respect, as Europeanised Maoris arc able to get rid of their lands without going before the Land Hoard or tho Native Land Courts, which were tho natives safeguards. Ho knew of a young Maori who became Europeanised under the statute who sold ,£27,000 worth of land in five years, and all he had to chow for it now was a new house and a few racehorses and some motor-ears.

Government laughter, and a voice “Who is to blame”’

Mr Parala: “The great Maori Chief (indicating the Native Minister! who is supposed to look after his children. 1 '