THE COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1560, 2 October 1912, Page 8

THE COUNCIL.

WORKERS' COMPENSATION SILL. The Legislative Council met at 2.30 yesterday afternoon. The Labour Bills Committee brought up its report on the Workers , ' Compensation Amendment Bill, with a recommendation that the Bill be allowed to proceed. T. G. MACARTHY TRUST. The .Toint. Committee on Standing Orders and Private Bills Drought forward its report on ''the T. G: Macarthy Trust Bill, with a recommendation that the Standing Orders-to'suspended, so that the Bill be allowed to proceed 'as an ursent measure of a national character. The report was agreed to, and' a message was forwarded to the House of Representatives, informing that Chamber tli.it the Council had agreed to tho report. ' ' ■ • ' TH-5 Hon. H. D. Bell gave notice of his intention to move to-day'for leave..to introduce the T. G. Maca'rtliy Trust Bill. CEMETERIES AMENDMENT. The Hon. H. D. BELL moved the see ond reading of the Cemeteries Amendment Bill. The object of tho Bill, ho said, was to allow places where dead bodies had l>eeii buried heretofore to be set apart by the owuer as a private cemetery, and to nllow-of the appointment of incorporated trustees to hold endowments, and use their proceeds for the maintenance and improvement, of the burial ground. The Bill, Mr. Bell said, proposed only to.enable private burial grounds of the past to be , preserved as 'private burial grounds, permission being given -' by proclamation for the burial therein of certain persons or classes of persons. • Tho Bill did not authorise the creation of any. further private burial grounds. ' . ' After a somewhat lengthy discussion, the second reading was agreed to, and the Bill was referred to the Statutes Revision Committee. ■ ■ . ■ ■ AUCKLAND EDUCATION RESERVES. The Auckland Education Reserves Bill was put through its committee stage. • A new clause was added providing that during the erection of. certain buildings tho rent shall be at the present ■ rent; and not the increased rent 'provided for, if tho building is proceeded with with, reasonable expedition, of which'the Vublic Trustee shall be the judge. ■ ; THE LATE MR. R.M.HOUSTON. Li the Legislative Council a motion was passed recording tho Council's high sense of the. faithful services Tendered' to tlie Do'ninwn by. the late Mr; R.- if. Houston, and extending to his family tho Council's sincero sympathy in: their bereavement. The motion was moved by the Hon.' H. D. Bell, Minister for Internal Affairs, and was spoken to by.the Hens. Sir W. J. Steward,- "\V. C. Cerncross, C. H. Mills, and' Major Harris. The Council adjourned at 3.30 p.m., as a mark of respect to the memory.'of the late Mr. R..M. Houston. " '■