POLITICAL NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1581, 26 October 1912, Page 6

POLITICAL NOTES.

IMPREST SUPPLY. AMOUNT OF .£745,900 APPROPRIATED. Tho Imprest Supply Bill, which was passed by the House of Representatives and the Legislative Council yesterday, proposes to -appropriate a total sum of .£745,900. Following are the schedules of tho Bill:— FIRST'SCHEDULE. The Consolidated Fund ~ 500 000 The Public Works Fund " 200000 Opening up Crown Lands for Settlement Account g qqq Tho National Endowment Account OQQQ The Land for Settlemoats Account l|ooo The State Forests Account 1,000 The State Coal-mines Account ... 15*000 Tho Scenery Preservation Account l'ooo The Wcllington-Hutt Railway and Road Improvement Account 500 The Railways Improvements Account g Qoo The Waihou and Ohinemuri „ Rivers Improvement Account... 1,500 .£731,000 SECOND SCHEDULE. £ Tho Governmont Insuranco Account 7,000 Tho Government Accident Insurance Account 1,000 The State Fire Insuranco Account 1,500 The Public Trust Office Account 3,000 Tho New Zealand Stato Guaranteed - Advances AccountAdvances to Settlers Branch Account 2,000 Advances to Workers Branch Account 200 Advances to Local Authorities Branch 200 .£14,900 SIX DAYS A WEEK. The amendment to the Shops and Offices Act, of which Mr. Massey gave notice yosterday, is intended to meet the wishes of those members who have lately been asking that tho House should be given an opportunity of statutorily limiting tho working week of hotel and restaurant employees to six days. END OF THE SESSION. At tho end of last week it was freely predicted in tho lobbies that tho session would end on November 2, but the opinion is now pretty general that Pariiamont has a poor prospect of rising before November 9. Apart from the work still to be dono on big policy Bills, and on a little army of minor measures that figure on tho Order Paper, the Government has promised to set aside afternoons for tho discussion of the Taupo-Totara and Otira Tunnel Committee reports. Other afternoon discussions may be looked for on the report of the Public Accounts Committee, concerning its inquiry into the administration of tho Stato Guaranteed Advances Department, and on tho report of tho committee appointed to investigate the petition of Mr. Joshua Jones, of Mokau, Taranaki. STATE ADVANCES INQUIRY. Although tho Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives his concluded the taking of evidence in its inquiry into the administration of the State Guaranteed Advances Department under past Governments, it still has somo work ahead of it beforo it presents its report to the House. Probably the report will not be brought down until towards tho end of next week.