PARLIAMENT IN SESSION

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1794, 5 July 1913, Page 6

PARLIAMENT IN SESSION

DEFENCE DEFAULTERS. COMPLAINTS ABOUT DETENTION. ADDRESS-IN-REPLY. FIGHTING SPEECH BY MR. FISHER.

The Council met at 2.30 p.m. The Hon. W. EARNSHAW gave notice to ask the Government whether they would take into consideration the question of appointing a small commission, consisting of Bomb members. of Parliament, and representatives of tho Miners' Union, to mako inquiry into the health of miners, and to mate Recommendations to tho Government on the subject. THE SMALLPOX SCARE, The Hop. Dr. COLLINS asked the question of which he had givo notice, regardin? tho advisability of having , all school children vaccinated, seeing that smallpox iad broken out in Australia. ■ Tho Hon. H. D. BELL,, replying to tho nnestion, said that tho Health Department Sad already decided that those coming to ■New Zealand must be The Government • were aware of l the existence of smallpox in Sydney, were aware that the presence of tho disease there conetituted o. grave danger to the people of. theso islands, and thoy recognised also that, in tho opinion of those qualified to ,)judgo, vaccination was the best means of protection against tho disease. How- \ 'ever, the Government would rather for (the' present trust to the good sense of the Vpeople of the Dominion to do all that I,Was needful," than' adopt thoso coercive Qneasurea which might yet be necessary.