THE HOUSE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2531, 4 August 1915, Page 5

THE HOUSE

The' House of Representatives sat. at 2.30 p.m. . ' , Mr.' G.. W. RUSSELL (Avon) gave notice to ask the; Government whether they would consider the advisability of renewing negotiations with the Commonwealth Government with regard to reciprocity in the payment of old age pensions. > Mr. J. T. M. HORNSBY (Wairarapa) asked the Minister of Defence whether land near Featherston recently purchased by the Government was to be used as a permanent camp for soldiers. If so, what was the area of land, and what was the purchase price r The Hon. J. ALLEN said that the honourable member had better ask for a return. The area of land purchased for a camp site was about 100 acres. The Public Health Amendment Bill (Mr. W. A. Veitch) was introduced and read a first time.

DECLARATION DAY. SIR JOSEPH WARD asked the Prime Minister whether-he intended to move any resolution in tho House in connection with Declaration Day,- He thought it would be fitting for the House to put. on record its determination to see the war through at all?costs. wi The Right Hon. W. ,F. MASSEY sai.d that on the following day . meetings, convened by Mayors of cities and towns, would be held throughout the Dominion, and at these meetings a certain' resolution would be submitted. He proposed to ask the House to adjourn on Wednesday evening, but in the afternoon he would ask the House to deal with the resolution, which would be submitted to, the public meetings being held all over the Dominion. SAFETY OF SHIPS. The Crimes Amendment Bill (the Hon. A.'L. Herdman) was committed. Tho Bill, which provides for cognisance by the New Zealand Courts of acts calculated to endanger the safety of ships— as the placing of infernal machines on ships about to sail—and for the punishment of such- acts by death or such other penalty as the Court may impose, passed through Committee, was read a third time, and passed without a word of comment. LICHTS ON VEHICLES. The Hon. D. BUDDO (Kaiapoi) moved the second reading of the Lights on Vehicles Bill. The object of the Bill, he said, was to bring all local bodies into uniformity in the matter of insisting .upon all vehicles on public roads showing lights after sunset. The' Bill was read a second time without debate. ■ ■