NEW BILLS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1810, 24 July 1913, Page 8

NEW BILLS.

PRIVATE MEMBERS' VENTURES. INCREASE IN RACING DAYS, Tiio Claming Amendment Bill to he introduced by Mr. T. St. Wilford has been circulated. It provides that instead of a maximum number of racing days for which permits to use the totalisator may be granted, "the issue of sueli licenses shall he so regulated that tho licenses issued in any one year will, as far as can be. arranged, be available upon not more than 250 specific days of that year." As race meetings in several large centres are commonly held on tho same day, the effect of Mr. AVilford's Bill will bo to increase the number of racing days. Mr. Wilford proposes that in allotting the extra totalisator licenses preference shall be given (without prejudice to the renewals of existing licenses) to tlie claims of those country racing clubs and trotting clubs whose licenses were not renewed, or the number of days covered by the licenses were reduced, in accordance with the report of the Racing Commission. After these clubs have been provided for, ho suggests that tho Minister for Internal Affairs may grant licenses to hunt clubs, but not more than ten in any one year.

DISTRESS FOR RENT. The Distress Limitation Bill introduced by Mr. A. H. Hindmarsh proposes to amend tho Distress and Replevin Act by exempting from distress for rent furniture as well as family clothing, bed clothes, bedding, and tools of trade, anil by increasing the total .value of the exemption allowed to ,£SO instead of £Is. DAYLIGHT SAVING..' Mr. T. K. Sidey has introduced a Daylight Saving Bill, which he calls "Definition of Time Bill." Ho proposes that from the first Sunday iu November in each year until tho first Sunday in February in each year New Zealand clock, time shall be one hour in advance of New Zealand solar time, and that for tho rest of tho year New Zealand clock time shall ■be the same as solar time for New Zealand.