THE HOUSE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 666, 17 November 1909, Page 5

THE HOUSE.

SECOND READINGS. When ,the ;Houee resumed yesterday 'afternoon the Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland Special Powers Bill (Mr.' Baume)'and M'Lean's , Institute Bill (Mr. Russell) passed their second ■ . readings. ■ ■ ■ . 1 ( NEW BILLS. The Inglewood Technical School Site Bill (Mr. Hine) and Manukau Harbour Control and Auckland Harbour Board Empowering Bill (Mr. Baume) were- read a first time. ■

HOSPITALS AND CHARITABLE- INSTITUTIONS. Tho discussion in committee on. tho Hospitals , and Charitable.lnstitutions Bill was. continued, 'i:/ ;On the motion of the:H«n. G. Fowlds, Clause 71''was amended; and passed in the following '■ '••' fofa"Whea &■ Hospital and Charitable Aid Beard may .lawfully gtant, any, kind of. relief • to!any. person,;it shall be lawful for;that board to contract ;for the' granting of such relief to ' that .person-, bytheCrown in, any. sanatorium oriother institution dnder: its/ control,-or 1 by any other Hospital or Charitable Aid Board," etc.- ,• Mr. ALLEN (Bruce) Btrongly opposed, Subr clause sof Clause-77, .which provides that if at any time it appears to the Governor-in- ■ - Council that a Hospital: and Charitable Aid Board has failed or 'refused to perform any ~ duty,-i or •exercise any; power, Under .the. Act,' ■ the ; Govemoivin-CouncU can deal with ■ "the matter, and a any resultant Order-in-Councilii shall be "final-and conclusive; and shall not bo I questioned in any court,: whether on the ground I of'want of jurisdiction or otherwise." This was I ■ ' tho - most ■ sweeping proposal, Mr. :Allen said,, that had' erver'come'under his notice. Mr. FOWLDS explained that it was due to . thdC'fact • that • a certain - district had evaded . paying rates ojring to' a technical weakness in J -connection with an Order-in-Council. . ■Mr. ALLEN thought that< a/less - ,objectionable • ' (üb-claose might be substituted. ■ The Minister agreed-to withdraw the subclahse and a substitute later. The MlNlSTEß'stated that there was no alteration'of principle'in the part of the Act dealing;with private hospitals. ■ JAipiS'ALLEN thought the laV, should be -to provide further; safeguards for - children who -were ' boarded- out. ■' The condi- ■; tiois.iunder. 'which .these .children were ..dealt trith .'were^often-very Toe MINISTER explained that the .matter ,- 'of ' boarded-out" children. came under' : another' ■ - Act". He expected to-have an amendment to that Act brought down this session. , . In several claused where amounts of tinea ; -were stated the words'"not exceeding". were in- . sorted. • The MINISTER, in reply to Mr. James Alto.'draft a Bill providing'that in , outof-the-way; districts-licensed hospitals should ho-permitted without a registered nurse.. : Mr. Buchanan (Wairarapa) suggested that it should "be. in the power :oi the Inspector-General to. grant.such permission. ;■ ■ ■, ; 1 At this stage (Clause 10® the discussion was gdjonrned. '