ARBITRATION BILL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1871, 3 October 1913, Page 4

ARBITRATION BILL.

' POLICE & POLITICAL CASIfAIWiG. i jI./-' j v..-'• ■;' ■' INTERESTS IN HOTELS. THE LOAN BILL-MORE SKIRMISHING.

• Tho Legislative-Council sat at 2.80 ■ p.m. ; • . •-, ■ ■ - Tho' Joint Committee on Bills, to whioh had* been referred the .Christ- '. churoh Electrical Supply Empowering Bill, reported that the Bill was a local Bill,-and, recommended, that it/bo al- ■■■■ lowed to proceed, as such. | AMERICAN TARIFF. Tho Hon. R. A. LOUGHNAN moved: ' -"That the Department of Industries - and Commerce be instructed to make inquiries .into -tho,changes.,now,, being, -made* in' I .the United States tariff, .and 'inform the publio exactly from time-to to time." . . ■ < The motion waa agreed to/vrithout do l ' bate. -. .. ;■ LIBRARY PRIVILEGES. " , Tho Hdri'. 1 J. RIGG moved :''Thai; it be a recommendation to the Joint Library Commitiee-to 1 consider the" advisability of extending tho full privileges of 1 tho ' library to, ex-members of Parliament, and of'allowing. tho issue of approved iction to-recess privilogo holders." Tho'motion was agreed to,- after some . -debate; I" I THE FERRY SERVICE. The 'Hon. 'J. ;/ ANSTEY -asked without notico ;whother the Government would take sfepsifo'inducerthe" Union Company to : put such "steamers on the Wcl-jington-Lyttelton '• ■ ferryservice as i '.would onsure the-moro prompt-delivery «f mails.-'"' The Hon. H, D. BELL . asked Mr. tAnstey'to put; his motion on the Order Papor for next sitting day, whon he . j(Mr. Bell) hoped to bo able to give an ' . •answer. . A locA.l bill. The, Christchurch Electrical Supply (Empowering Bill was coWmitted. The Bill empowers the Christchurch City Council'to borrow £30,000 iotj certain work in-connection with, tho -supply of electricity to consumers, and to jaiso tho money without refejonce to ' tho ratepayers. ■ - The Hon. J. E. JENKXNSON moved that the' clause .under . which this was propoßg^,^ould ; be amendedjitomake it . obligafwty dn'tho Council td'iake a jrall of tho ratepayers before raising the . loan. '• . - -V. ■ It was pointed out in' the course of ', the disoussion that; tho monoy proposed to bo raised would be .'spent on .leading wires into consumers' nouses and im the supply of heating and lighting appliances for which the consumers could not afford to pay iu cash. and that )noney Eo .expcndcd would bo made a fcharge oii 'the, property of those: consumers.'!: It was therefore impossible for the Council to lose any part of the ' money,! and the'. loan : could not. ever "become a charge on tile, rates.: _ It, .was argued also that local', authorities' could borrow .without reference to the' ratepayers, for the purpose of linking up. .houses with the, drainage systems, and , that this-was kindred work.: The amendment was defeated by .21 'votes to 2, the; supporters, of it being Mr. Jenkinson and Mr. Duthie. The Hon. W.- EARNSHAW moved.an amendment to 'divest tho City Council of the right to do the work of installing «lectric fittings''; in .premises; . , Tho amendment was defeated on the voices. The Bill was reported witlf technical amendments,-. read a time, and ' passed.'' . i ' ■ - ■ ARCHITECTS BILL. The lion. 11. D. BELL moved the second reading of the Now Zealand Institute of Architects Bill. Ho remarked that the Bill had caused some little excitement when it :was first introduced in tho House,' but ,a'9;it emerged.from . the House it would not alarm .an infant. The Council, he thought, should ■have no.difficulty.in accepting the Bill;Tho.. second reading was -agreed to On the voices.', . , , LOCAL ELECTIONS. Tho Hon. H. ,D. BELL moved the second reading-of .the Local Elections and Polls Bill., Although the Bill was bo long, he said, its only object was to make, the law rolating to the olection of members of Parliament apply as far as possible to local.elections. Tho second reading was agreed to .Without debate. ; ; At 4.47 p.m. the Council adjourned Until Wednesday at 2.30 p.m.