LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 936, 1 October 1910, Page 7

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY EMPOWERING BILL. 1 When tho Legislative Council mot ■yesterday afternoon the second reading Of the " Now Zealand Portland . Cement Company (Limited) Reclamation and Empowering Bill was agreed to without discussion a.nd tho .Bill was referred to the Committee of Selection.WANCANUI CHURCH ACRE BILL. . The. Wanganui Church Acre Bill was reported by tho Private l Bills Committee without amendment. LAW PRACYITIONERS AMEND- ' ' MENT. ! A long debate took place on the motion to. go into Committee on the Law Practitioners' Amendment Bill. • Sevofal speakers criticised tlio measure and urged that it should be referred to the Statutes Revision Committee. Tlio ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in the course of .his reply, remarked, that-tho total number of law practitioners at the present timewas; 858., The effect of the Bill would -be to reduce the burden a"' little oh 069 and' ; increase it 'a little, on 189 mombers, . He did not tiiink thoro was anything in tlio . Bill to go .before, the Statutes , Revision Committee.' ,If the Bill got to that committee and was obstructed, it would never come back. It was a useful little measure about the justice of wliicli, there could bo no doubt. ' !' : On going into Committee on the Bill tho whole of . tho,, Iclauses, with '-the-, exception of Clause: 3, providing that District Law 1 Societies should contribute to tlio funds of tho New Zealand Law Society ; were agreed to. . Clause 8 was postponed in order, that the At-. torney-General should bo enabled to r&fer it again to those immediately concerned. . CANTERBURY COLLEGE BILL. The Canterbury'.College and Canterbury. Agricultural Amendment Bill went through. Committee without "amendment and was then put through its final stage and passed. 1 : The Council adjourned imtil Wednesday next.