"WASHING UP " BILL.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19146, 1 November 1927, Page 9

"WASHING UP " BILL.

SOME CANTERBURY CLAUSES. [THS PRESS Special Service.] WELLINGTON, October 31. The first "Washing Up" Bill of the session, introduced in the House of Representatives to-night, has a number of clauses in it of interest to Canterbury people. There is a clause authorising the diversion of £SOOO (of a highway construction loan of £IO,OOO not wanted for that purpose) to the construction or reconstruction of bridges, other than bridges the cost of reconstruction of which is properly charged agajjast any riding account. There is a clause empowering the Selwvn and Ellesmere Connty Councils to raise a loan for acquiring land and erecting a public hall and library at Dunsandel . There is a clause vestuie certain land of the Ashley River Trust in the Rangiora Borough Corporation as a reserve for tree planting, the area being fonr acres. A clause authorises the Ashburton Couutv Council to prepare and publish a jubilee booklet, at a cost of £l2O, out of its ordinary funds. A clause authorises the Lyttelton Harbour Board to. spend £SOO on the publication of a historical-handbook. Provision is made for the expenditure of surplus sinking fund moneys of the Christchurch drainage loan by the sinking fund commissioners on the destructor and sanitarv works loan. The Christchurch City Council is authorised to make a payment of £3OO in respect of an accident to Ernest Neil Dodge, who was injured by a water-cart, and had to have a leg amputated.