PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 235, 4 October 1928, Page 20

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

JOTTINGS FROM THE GALLERY

EIGHT BILLS PASSED. <<Bj Telegraph.—Parliamentary Beporter.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Music Teachers' Registration. Another wholesale clearance of bills made in the House of Representatives to-day, when eight measures, including Sir John Luke's Music Teachers' Registration Bill and the Health Minister's Opticians Bill (which has been on the hooks since 1926) were passed. The other six measures were the Swamp Drainage Amendment Bill, the Canterbury Agricultural College Amendment Bill, the Motor Vehicles Insurance (third party risks) Bill, the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Amendment Bill the Electrical Wiremen's Registration Amendment Bill, and the Dangerous Drugs Amendment Bill. A bill introduced yesterday, the Copyright (temporary/ Amendment Bill was read a second time. Progress was reported on the WashingUp Bill after the whole of the original clauses had been agreed to and a series of additional clauses, none of which affect Auckland, were brought down by Governor's Message. These new clauses will be dealt with later in the week. Such a large number of bills having been sent on their way to the Legislative Council, only nine measures remain on the Order Paper, and they are all private member's bills, doomed never to be passed during the evening. An amendment to the Power Boards Act was introduced by Governor's Message. The House rose at J327 a.m. Merriment Adout Music. Sir John Luke (Wellington North), one of the most "popular and good natured members o* the House, was subjected to a good deal of banter from Reform colleagues when his Music Teachers Registration Bill was in committee to-night. Mr. Forbes (Hurunui) wondered who had asked for this bill, since he had never seen anything in the newspapers about it. Mr. Fraser (Labour member for Wellington Centrai) thought Sir John was unduly' modest about his little bill. A n'ew weeks hence, no doubt, Sir John would be giving a good exhibition of blowing his own trumpet. The bill would be welcome, however, if it meant that the flood of bad music which some bad players produced would be reduced. For no reason at all save to enjoy a joke at Sir John's expense, members on all sides of the House carried on a stonewall ,by means t of humorous speeches. However, the : father of the bill flung back as good a3 1 he received, and the midnight hour was < raucous with laughter as Mr. Samuel 1 (Ohinemuri) talked glibly of "sliding 1 scales of the age," Jew's harps and jazz ' whistles. His speech reminded one of 1 the celebrated "Meanderings of Monty." ' On completion of the committee stage Sir John walked from his seat at the 1 chairman's side to his bench, amid a ! burst of handclapping, but Mr. Eraser's suggestion that musical honours be accorded was not accepted. 1