THE COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 15

THE COUNCIL.

RACE MEETINGS BILL. | When-.the fittings of., the Council -were, re;v ;.v;v; aumed yesterday, it was decided C that the ■//Council should ; insist ■ upon the amendments ;■ which it had;mado.m tho Race.Meetings Bill. -Q" . Managers w&r'o sot up todrawup reasons for tte amendments being insisted on. . ; . ■; AMENDMENTS TO FINANCE MEASURES. The amendments-made by Governor's Mes- •: - sage in ,'thei'f New.; Zealand ■ State Guarantee Ad-vances.;Bill,!and:Laad-:forSettlement Adminis- : . tration: Bill; -and- tho Native . Land Bill, were ... then .considered. • ■•' ,-v■>-.'•'.'. . . ----- - j - >: The Hon. T. KELLY. (Taranaki) complained ■ that, the practice : which had been followed was not legislation in the'-true sense. ■:• . The- amendments •in - the three Bills were \V;^ v^greed -,* i ---r ;: vW;: 1 ' 1 Local bills. \ As number-of local Bills,-including tho Hutt i . ;Valley- 'rramway District .Amendment. Bill, • were-put -through their final' stages.

A PUBLIC SERVICE BILL. r ; v:.v . - In :movirig tho second reading of the Public f i .Sbttico : Claßsjtication :• and . Superannuation i Amendment Bill, . .■ . The ATTORNEY-GENERAL explained that ;: it proposed 'to give, to all public servants .. who wero'. retired compulsonly, .otherwise than for | : , 'misconduct,, the right to receiTO, after twenty i . . years' semce, interest on their contributions, in i addition :to - a refund s of the amount paid. vThe i v, country couldnot: afford: to- continuo . its : generosity, m point iof retiring allowance toi :-,;v the higher-paid othcials, . The fund was not self-supporting,' being largely'supported, by the I ' moneys of the-people as a wnolc. ;In Now i .-.\vZaalend the■:people "were."not; so much con* i . corned ,to assist those ■ who, ; having enjoyed large incomes; for a ,i:large number of' years,' 1 ■ v could -.well provide for -fhoir retirement, but • those who had simply, subsisted with little or , nothing to retire on. The, Bill was put through all its stages, l with ;:£■s 'J: verbal amendment only .and passed, x : RACING MEETINGS BILL. The ATJTORNEY-GENERAL intimated that }'' > • . the .managers for- tho House had agreed to tho A »mendm6nts made in this Bill by tne Council.. ' ' ROTOITI VALIDATION BILL. ; . .The. Rotoiti-Validation- Bill; was put through all its stages without alteration. , , . - ..: ' The t Council,.. .at »,10.10,v.adjouTned,;,until 9.30 • , 1 this morning.