PARLIAMENT IN SESSION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1866, 27 September 1913, Page 8

PARLIAMENT IN SESSION.

THE ESTIMATES. ANOTHER OPPOSITION CHARGE FAILS. :; EDUCATION AFFAIRS. MEDICAL INSPECTION IN THE SCHOOLS.

Tho Legislative Council' met . at 2.30 The Imprest Supply Bill, No. 4, was received from tho House of Representatives. Tho Hon. W. BEEHAN said that tho session up to date had beon one of the most unsatisfactory lie had ever experienced, for.members had boon kept continually waiting about with 110 work to ■do. It was probably no use to protest, i"because every Government seemed to fliave the same fault, and measures were 'rushed into the Council at the last (moments of the session. , i The Hon. H. D. BELL said ho thought the'position was fairly well unIdorstood by members of the Council. ''A very large number of Bills which the Council could well give consideration to 'early in the session unfortunately required an appropriation clause, and had "therefore to be introduced in another 'place. It was not even" practicable, as had been suggested, that local Bills could bo brought first to tho Council, because the members representing tho localities concorned must he allowed to lintroduco them in their own Chamber first. He suggested that Mr. Bcehan had been unfair, for the Government - lirid this year put back its policy meami res in order to givo way to other "Bills which oiißhfc to have the consider l fitloii of tho Council. More had been dono this year than over before to allow of tho passage of measures which • wero\ not policy Bills, and to advance lineal Bills, and more business had in fconsequence been put before.the Coun- , oil. In viow of the circumstances he had mentioned he did not think it would ever be possible to have the business of tho Council so far advanced in the early stages of the session as the lion'ourable gentleman seemed to suppose The Bill passed its other stages without further debate. Tho Land Drainage Amendment Bill was referred to the Statutes Revision •Committee. The Council roso at 2.55 p.m.