SESSION TO END ON SATURDAY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 49, 21 November 1907, Page 9

SESSION TO END ON SATURDAY.

1 NATIVE LAND Bill PASSED.

JOUNOILLORS OBJECT TO HUSTLING. ■ The Legislative Council dobs not like to to rusher)..' Yeatorday afternoon, tho Hon. H. F;;Wigram had plenty of support in a protest lagainst the wi\y in which n number of local Bills, afti?r lying dormant for months, wero'{rushcd through the Lower House and sent up to the Council in a' bunch. Tho Public 1 ; Service Bill was read a second tiroo, and substantial progress was inn do with it in;'CJqmmittec. The Stock' Act' Amendment' Bili.'. ancl. Packet Licenses Bill were put through all th'cir stages, and the National Endowment Bill, which has been waiting many;, vdays for the like consummation, reached! it without a wprd- pf discussion. Mrjy" in yesterday afternoon's sitting), the. .Premier informed the House of Representatives that he proposed the session should end on Saturday evening. Ho hopsd it','wpuld;nbt be necessary to pass on into next wo'ek. /He. indicated also the'measures ho proppsod should bo completed. The Native Land Settlement Bill, thq Gamiiig and Lot-' teries Bill, Railway Classification Bill, and the' Fire Brigades Bjll.werq among the numher,', lnit. to do the work it would bo necessary;' tO,:'jneet each mooting it 11 o'clock. ■Without to", .difeip'ups Ministerial ;p----pljcs r to; questions—-a'.Wednesday afternoon privilege — the' House proc'eoded to put f ho Natiyp';Land' Settlement Bill through Committee.. Tho Committee stages were completed an hour before midnight, and the Bill wits' reported' with amendments. : It' was then'read third time and passed.