POLITICAL NOTES
DELEGATE TO WASHINGTON. SIR JNO. SALMOND'S APPOINTMENT MEMBERS NOT PLEASED. By Telegraph.—Special to Times. WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The House had a quiet day. Mr Masscy announced that the Government had decided to send Justice Salmond to the Washington conference as the representative of New Zealand, and it appeared from the tone of the brief discussion that members were not over-pleased at this appointment. They admitted Sir John Salmond's high qualifications as a lawyer, but did not (Link the Government should have gone outside Parliament. Auckland East By-election. Mr Masscy indicated that the Auckland Easl by-cleotion would lake pi, ice about October .'lO. Samoan Matters. The second reading of Ihc Samoan Bill kepi members occupied till the adjournment. Much was said on familiar lines about indentured labour, the liquor question, and so forth. Hon. K. P. Lee insisted that the Government was lining lis best with Samoa, and was making progress against difficulties.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14773, 12 October 1921, Page 5
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