BILL PUT THROUGH ALL STAGES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 33, 3 November 1920, Page 8

BILL PUT THROUGH ALL STAGES

AUTHORITY FOR NARROW GAUGE RAILWAYS

The Legislative Council (fealt briefly with several Bills yesterday. It postponed for a fortnight consideration of n motion proposing that women should be appointed as patrols and justices of the peaoe, and that a woman should 'he associated with the censor of pictures. The postponement is equivalent to rejection.

1 ' The Bank of New Zealand Bjll was beforo the House of Representatives in 'the afternoon and evening. The Prime Minister moved tho. second reading of ■the Bill, and explained its effect at length. A certain amount of adverse cri- ; ticism was directed at the Bill in the course of the debate that followed, but , the verdict -of the House generally ira* favourable. The Bill evenually was put through all its stages and passed.

... The adjourned debate on tine amendments made by the Legislative Council In the Marriage Amendment Bill was expected to come belore the House after the ißank of Ken- Zealand Bill had be/jn disposed of, nnd all the galleries were full. But objection was raised under the Standing Orders to thie introduction of the business at a late hour.

The "washing-up" Bill was introduced late in tilt evening. It is a very lengthy measure containing the usual m ass of miscellaneous clauses, some of thorn 'contentious.

After midnight the. House passed the Local Railways Bill and the District Railways Bill, authorising tho construction of narrow gaugu railways. It also' dealt finally with the Orchard and Garden Pests Bill and the Stone Quarries Amendment Bill.