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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1518, 14 August 1912, Page 8

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SATURDAY •:HALF.HOLIDAY BILL. The. Hoiise of fespTcsaiitatives mot at 2.30 p.ni. " ■ ' : Mr.:G::JM.TjRENSON (Lyttelton) gave, notice of thn Universal Saturday Half- ■ .Holiday Bill. LEAVE OF ABSENCE, Six days' leave of absence were granted to Mr. Payne, member for Grey Lynn, on account' of urgent ' private business. Four days' leave of absence were granted to Mr. J. Vigor Brown, member for Napier, also on account of urgent private Business. LAND AND INCOME TAX BILL. Tlio Land and Incomo Tax - Assessment Bill whs introduced by Governor's Message and read a first time. A.'AND P. SOCIETY'S BILL. The Agricultural and Pastoral Societies' Amendment BUI was repotted from the Lands ' Committee with amendment. . RANAMA.CANAL .DIIES. . Mr. : G. W. RUSSELL [Avon) "asked the Prime Minister whether, in-view of thelegislation that had bsen passed "by the UnM'States of' America, dealing with the Panama Canal-tines, ho would c'ommiinicato with' the Government of the Commonwealth, urging that-joint: representations should bo inado to the Homo Government with'-'a view to urging -America to fix conditions of transit through the. canal on something like fair linos. It ■was highly important- to those -countries in the' Soiftheinn Seas that the,..waterway Gbotild bo left ai free as possible. - The .PRIME MINISTER,said that the matter; -n'EtfJ-. already^imdsi> prasddcration