PARLIAMENT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1866, 27 September 1913, Page 7

PARLIAMENT.

A DAILY SUMMARY. Tho amount of work loft undono in tho Houso of Representatives yesterday was n record for tho session savo during tlio days of tlio late. obstruction debate. Tho House went into Committer Supply 011 the Estimates in tlio uUcriioon, and it was nearly one o'clock in the morning before any appreciable progress was mado. Half an Jiour later the class was still under consideration, and Mr. Wilford was begging the House to consent to a reduction of £200 111 Mr. Itoyd Garlick's .salary. Less than a score of members wore sitting up, but about as many moro wero prono upon their benches. One or two gavo audiblo tokens of the fact that they were fnst'asleop. The only strangers in tho House wero two or thrco Departmental officers in attendance upon tlio Minister in charge of tho Estimates. Tho galleries and tho seats around the floor wero empty. Sir Joseph Vu™ surveyed tho Houso front a back Opposition bench. . , ~ It was not anticipated, when tho llouso met in tho afternoon, that such poor progress would be made, ior about an hour members engaged with evidont interest in a, discussion upon tho merits of a petition in which a man sentenced to threo months imprisonment for using obscene language asked that his sentonco should bo alleviated. Mr. G. W. Russoll and other members took tho view that Farliamen should not bo asked to deal with mattors of this kind, but .eventually tho icport of the Petitions Committee recommending the petition to tho Govern ment for immediate and favourable sideration, was laid upon the table. At . 3.45 p.m. tho Houso went into Committee of Supply upon tho Estimates of the Education Department. Tho discussion ran quietly upon tors of more or less important detail until latb in .tho evening, but very slow progress was mado. .. . At 11 p.m. Mr. Wilford . raised a quostion regarding tlio P r °J cctcd pr motion of Mr. Brown, an mspectoi in tho Education Department, to tho mm tion of Director of Technical - Mr. "VVilford asserted tbftfc tho ap T ,ointment" was ono that w°« kl a sensation, but tho charge m tho end broko down badly, and after -t, l ail been discussed for a ™uplo of | dropped without b& vote being taken., Z matter had no sooner been disposed of than Mr. Wilford moved to reduce tho salary <\f Mr. Royd Garlick bv £200. Tho' Minister for Education Porously defended his officer, but tlio discussion wont on jnt loud snores, somo of them artihcial, arose in different parts of tho Cham-

tC T|,i s was tho itate of affairs when Trip. Dominion went to press. Tho Legislative Council sat for half an hour,; and passed tho Imprest Supply Bill. .