POLITICAL NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1933, 16 December 1913, Page 5

POLITICAL NOTES.

❖ ALIEN TRADER'). One interesting feature of the small Shops and Oilices Mil, which cts passed by the House ou Saturday, has special reference to Ohniese 1 i:i. Hitherto Chinamen not naturalised i.i New Zealand have not been tiibkci to the provisions of tho Shops and Oi'i.es Act ill regard to leynl hours of trading, s:«d so forth, and it is reported that soma Celestials hav;.; taken advantage «t ' =ia fact. The Bill makes all Chinese traders subject- !•.' the lair «hetlier.-they we ■sialuraliscd or nol. reported retirements. H is reported that Sir James C.ui-i'l-<fees not intend to seel; rc-elevtion for (iisbortic after the pi: n'i:i Parliaments has come to e.u end. ii has already, been announced t-iinfc the linn- J- A. Millar lnis decided not to Btnnd aRtiU» for election in Dmiedin West. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. The lion. I'\ M. H. Fisher, who is at Ly Melton, is the onl t v Minister flirt of town at pfeK'iit. Ministers in general will be busiiv engaged in overlakinß arrears of BejwrtmeiHal work for Koran weeks after tiro session ends. Iffit sonw of them mav ire absent trow Wellington: for a lime at the holiday iwiefl. Dvfi Prime Minister hope® to be in AuAUmd for the Now Year. board of agriculture. TJte Board of-Acricnlluro will be constituted Wily in the New Year. _ Arrangements are at present »n train for the selection of eisiht member*; of iko lmr-d bv the various Acrienltural awl Vastoraf Sofiietlixs throughout the Do million. The other four members, ono of tvl>om will !)■?■ resident of the board, are to be appointed bv the Covernnwnt. The iwsitioii of president is to he ed, it is stated, to Sir. J. (!. Wilson