Political Notes.
Mr K. Thompson : I have myself seen five children ride a horse to school, from the ears to the tail.
Mr G. W. Russell: It is not fair to look to the Legislative Council as a body to undo foolish work that wo do.
Mr Allen : If ever I came across a man who fears the Press, and has given evidence of it, it is the Right lion, the Premier.
Hon. C. C. Bowen: In Italy there is not a woman or child who docs not almost beggar herself to put money in the public lottery,
Hon. G. Jones: If legalised sweeps keep
the money in a country, why have they not kept it in Italy, one of the poorest countries in the world ?
Mr T. Mackenzie: I venture to think that their is no reform more urgent than the reform of extending bettor telephonic communication to the remoter country districts.
Mr Napier : There are a lot of people
in this House who talk about democracy, but who love to put on a brass button or a bit of millinery like any other woman.
Mr Colvin : I have mixed with men who are the real workers, and I can honestly say that I have always found the working-man does an honest day's work if he is paid honestly.
Mr Napier: The whole system of kissing is entirely obsolete.—When the laughter ceased he explained that he meant the kissing of the Bible' by witnesses when being sworn.
Mr T. Mackenzie : The honorable (the Premier) has brought about this wretched time-limit, which strangles debate, and which will not allow me to shove down his throat the extracts from the figures which I have here.
Hon. Mr Twomey : You scream here because a Chinaman comes in to compete in the labor market, but you do not say a word about the cheap products of labor coming in here under free-trade. Is that sense'.’ No, it is not.
Mr Fisher : I care not one jot for the opinion of members on cither side of the House when a question of this sort arises. Besides, there are “no points ” in being an undeviating Government supporter. You don't get medals for that.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 223, 27 September 1901, Page 1
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368Political Notes. Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 223, 27 September 1901, Page 1
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