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Page 130 - Every argument for ploughing it up to raise more produce, applies d fortiori to the park, which is generally far more fertile. The effect of either, when done in the manner proposed, is only to make the poor more numerous, not better off. But what ought to be said when, as so often happens, the common is taken from the poor, that the whole or great part of it may be added to the enclosed...
Page 261 - Yes, I have a pair of eyes,' replied Sam, 'and that's just it. If they wos a pair o' patent double million magnifyin' gas microscopes of hextra power, p'raps I might be able to see through a flight o' stairs and a deal door; but bein' only eyes, you see, my wision's limited.
Page 129 - In the greater part of this island, exclusive of the mountain and moor districts, there certainly is not more land remaining in a state of natural wildness than is desirable. Those who would make England resemble many parts of the Continent, where every foot of soil is hemmed in by fences and covered over with the traces of human labour, should remember that where this is done, it is done for the use and benefit, not of the rich, but of the poor; and that in the countries where there remain no commons,...
Page v - James, Canterbury. Buckley, Hon. George, Canterbury. Buckley, Hon. Patrick Alphonsus, Wellington. Campbell, Hon. Robert, Otago. Chamberlin, Hon. Henry, Auckland. Dignan, Hon. Patrick, Auckland. Fitzherbert, Hon. Sir William, KCMG, Wellington (Speaker).
Page 130 - ... land remaining in a state of natural wildness than is desirable. Those who would make England resemble many parts of the Continent, where every foot of soil is hemmed in by fences and covered over with the traces of human labour, should remember that where this is done, it is done for the use and benefit, not of the rich, but of the poor ; and that in the countries where there remain no commons, the rich have no parks. The common is the peasant's park. Every argument for ploughing it up to raise...
Page 129 - We must needs think, also, that there is something out of joint, when so much is said of the value of refining and humanizing tastes, to the labouring people — when it is proposed to plant parks and lay out gardens for them, that they may enjoy more freely nature's gift alike to rich and poor, of sun, sky, and vegetation ; and along with this a counter-progress is constantly going on of stopping up paths and enclosing commons. Is not this another case of giving with one hand and taking back more...
Page 54 - It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to...
Page v - Otago. Paterson, Hon. James, Otago. Peacock, Hon. John Thomas, Canterbury. Peter, Hon. William Spence, Canterbury. Pharazyn, Hon. Charles Johnson, Wellington. Pollen, Hon. Daniel, Auckland. Reynolds, Hon. William Hunter, Otago. Richmond, Hon. Mathew, CB, Nelson.
Page 153 - Contain in one alphabetical list all United Kingdom dentists, that is to say, all persons who are registered under this Act as having been at the passing thereof engaged in the practice of dentistry or dental surgery, and all persons who are registered as licentiates in dentistry or dental surgery of any of the medical authorities of the United Kingdom...
Page 217 - That no clerk or officer of this hous.e, or short-hand writer employed to take minutes of evidence before this house, or any committee thereof, do give evidence elsewhere, in respect of any proceedings or examination had at the bar, or before any committee of this house, without the special leave of the house...