PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16545, 14 July 1925, Page 5

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

POINTS FROM SPEECHES,

An Early Election. " What about in a few weeks?" interjected the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon, W. Nosworthy, in the House of Representatives on Fndul when-Mr F. Langstonc (Walmarino) was devoting some attention to ttie question of a General Election. " Yea/" responded Mr ■ Langslone, "we will have it to-morrow if members are ready for it. We are ready for it on these benches." Mr Langstone slated that when a prominent member of the Reform Party suggested an election, and when the Labour Party accepted the suggestion, the members of the Reform Party were first to draw back. "They just reached the point of talking about it," said Mr Langstonc, "and they didn't get any further."

Rod, Red, Red!" " Before I came into the House I used to read the speeches of the member for Nelson," remarked Mr JA. Lee (Auckland East) in the House of Representatives on Friday afternoon. ." There was hatred running through his utterances from start to finish. It was red, red, red. He sees red, he dreams red, and everything that he touches and everything that he talks about turns to mud and blood."

" Ladles and Gentlemen.'' The House laughed heartily, and even Mr Speaker attempted to conceal a smile, when Mr P. Eraser (Wellington Central), carried away by his eloquence in criticising the member for Nelson on Friday afternoon, addressed the Houso as " Ladies and Gentlemen." ' I apologise, Mr Speaker," he said when the 'mirth had subsided, " for ladies arc not yet 'in the House, and I am not allowed to call the hon. member a gentleman." Bad Air. An apt pun on the name of the member for Nelson, who charged the air in the House of Representatives with electricity on Friday afternoon, was made by Mr F. Langstonc (Waimarino). " The member for Nelson has created a political Atmoresphere which has complicated matters,' he remarked. Stato Advances. An interesting suggestion with regard to the operation of the State Advances Department was made last week by Mr Ransom, member for Pahiatua. Touching on the long delay that now occurs between the lodging of an application and the granting of a loan, he urged that applicants should promptly be given their valuation — that is to say, should be notified of the amount of- the loan they would ultimately be granted on a given security. Those whose applications were rejected, Mr Ransom observed, would then know at once where they stood, while those whose applications were approved could make financial arrangements accordingly. If they were able to show by the production of a letter from the State Advances Department that they were to receive a loan after a certain period, they would have no difficulty, the member for Pahiatua suggested, in making financial arrangements to tide over the period of delay. The Address-m-Reply.

The business before the House is now the main question in the Address-in-Reply debate, that is to say, the proposal that "a respectful address be presented to His Excellency in reply to His-Excellency's Speech." Unless further amendments are moved, the. debate should soon come to an end. Members who have spoken either on the main question or any amendment have exhausted their right to speak "in the debate unless some further amendment is proposed.