NEWS AND NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1267, 24 October 1911, Page 6

NEWS AND NOTES.

mi LAND FOR SETTLEMENT. k| The J.ind for Settlements Amendment j'. Bill circulated alter 2.30 o'clock tins { morning, consists of eight clauses. Us ' sf purport is to reduce the cist of paying '~, for ««(sites wimpiilsorily taken. Uaiii-e y 7 abolishes the prim-ipln heretofore 10l- u lowed 1.h.-it compuiWy expropriation ni shall parry compensation. In lnl.iir<> uii- ~ dor tlio liill tlio fl.vibtinsf oom|:en,silioii j, will not lie paid. ,1 IH A RAPID PROMOTION. [• A seeming anomaly diw.lnred in the a clarification list lias iU(.raeti<l the at- 1 (.(Milion of Mr. Tlordmau. who lias noli- .1 ii-d I hot he will ask I lie Government why „ N'iiinl)cr L'll Clerk. Old c Ago Pensions 'l)epar<miMi(). Cla«s V] of | the I'csl and Tolci;rapli Classification LNt. : willi o.vly two years eleven months and | I.W'ialy-ninp days' service, is receiving a J F.ikiry of .L'2i:>.'sind is placed above linn- \ dreiin of oilier officers in (he service, Mime of whom have served over thirty years; and whether the officer above referred l>l is a ti'injwrary clerk or has, with two j years (-lovitn months and twenty-nine days' ■ service only, been mudo a permanent ; Civil Servant.? ' THE IRON INDUSTRY. \ Mr. Luke, has inUinatod (lint ho will ' a=l; Hip Prime Minister whether, in dealing with the propo.-al for the manufac- < • lure of iron a;i<l steel in tho Dominion, , i h<; will prfcpp-l on the principle that it I is sound policy to develo]i Mich nn indusl try "ljy (he State." Mr. J.uke urge* that j the Co'veinmiffit should resume the Crown i area of mineral lands at Parapara, now I lir-IH by a company or syndicate. Ho suggests that (.he proposed banns could ho iW-cl as portion of Die capital required to establish tho concern. ' THE TAUPO INQUIRY. I Tho Taupo Inquiry Committee and i other Select Committees were, yesterday irrantcd permission to sit this inorning [ notwithstanding that the House might bo , sitting. Mr. Jlassey urped that tho taupo matter should bo held over until p the next Parliament, as it was too iniI i,ortant to be dealt with in the dying f hours of tk« session. 5 ELECTORAL DISTRICTS. 3 Tho Representation Commission omitted to slate what, city electorates should bo combined to form the city licensing district?, and they also failed to name • the electorates in which the sc-eoml ballot , (if any) is to bo taken Id (instead of 7) | . iliys after the general polling day. Ihe : .' Premier has introdnectf the Kcpresenta- . tion Commission's Beports Validation iJill ;' to rectify these omissions. It docs ',' not propose any further change. Ihe " electoral districts in which the second bal- ' lot is UUen fourteen dap after tho first ballot arc: Bay of Islands, Bay oi Plenty, f Kaipara, Jlarsden, Slotucka. 'laumarunui, Taurauga, Wakalipu, Wallace, and f 1 Westland.