IN PARLIAMENT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1203, 11 August 1911, Page 5

IN PARLIAMENT.

DAILY. SUMMARY. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM BILL. Civil hervice reform was discussed- in the iioitsu during most of yesterday alteruiwn. 'Die debate was begun by Mr. lleruuiau, who took, as upon a previous ocusiou, iho unusual couiso 01 speaking on Uiu motion to introduce his Civil Servioj Kcttirm Dill. Tho member lor Weliiugtou .\urcii, in oxplniniug his propos-a-a lor reii.oving the Civil tervico iroin puLticul inliueuco, emphasised his declaration that the scheme would givo control to Parliament instead oi.-to Ministers, as at present. Iho members who spoke after him from the Government btnehes infsistixl to tho contrary that the Bill would taKe uway Parliamentary control. Mr. Massey quoted a Bill on tho snine Hues introduced by the lato Mr. Scddon in 1883, and was told by tho other side that that politician ivas then in his "salad days." The debate was interrupted by the 5.30 p.m. adjournment. It stands to be resumed this afternoon,-and the Hon. T. Mackenzie has tho tloor. The debate on the Town Planning Bill was concluded at the evening sitting, and the second reading was carried on tho voices. Mr. Fowlds, in his reply, showed no disposition to modiiy his proposals in response- to the protests which had come throughout tho debate from all sides of the House against the giving of large additional powers to the Govcrnor-in-Council, and to certain Civil Servants, and against allowing loans for town-plan-ning to be raised without consultation of the ratepayers. . The minor business, of tho day included tho first reading of the Wanganui River Bridge Bill, and the third reading of the Wanganui School Sites Amendment Bill.