SIX BILLS AT A SITTING

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 37, 8 November 1920, Page 4

SIX BILLS AT A SITTING

IMPORTANT'AMENDMENTS IN THE DIVORCE LAW

HOSPITAL CONTROL

, Both Houses of Parliament were at work on Saturday, and between them they made important progress with the remaining work of the session. They are ■to meet again this morning, when the Finance Bill will be' introduced in the House of Bepresentatives. It is anticipated now that the session will close tomorrow. .Members of the House discussed the Babbit Nuisance Amendment Bill at length, objection being taken to tho provision of the 1919 Act requiring a magistrate to enter a conviction if an inspector declares that a farmer has failed to.destroy rabbits.- The Minister of Agriculture insisted thjt drastic powers were essential in dealing Vith the rabbit nuisance, but he accepted an amendment requiring tho report? of two inspectors to bo referred to the Director of Agriculture before n prosecution was undertaken. -taportant amendments to the divorce law were embodied in the Divorce and Matrimonii Causes-Amendment Bill. Now clauses' permit divorce after' parties have been judicially separated for three years, or after one of the parties £.KfT na f * ! JOCn 0f Unsoun(l mind fofimn years and an inmate of an institution for at least three years.

,«Jl- 5 8 -? r °. S ? ltals and Charitable Institutions Amendment Bill was nr.der commtsl n°f I"' ', 0f - Pub i ic Health stated thnt h6 intendcd t0 «* «P » trnTJT? • ™ q,,l f y durlD S recess to consider the question of hospital con«A™T *! S,lb . sldws - He ™uld introduce comprehensive legislation next session, after he received tho report of the commission.