POLITICAL POINTS

Evening Star, Issue 22144, 26 September 1935, Page 8

POLITICAL POINTS

REAL ESTATE DISTRIBUTION [From Oor Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, September 25. Changes in the law governing the distribution of the real estate of persons who die intestate are provided for in the Administration Amendment Bill, which was introduced into the House this afternoon by Governor-General’s Message. One or the clauses in the Bill is intended, to correct an anomaly recently brought- under the notice of the Government by the Supreme Court. It is provided in the Bill that, in the case of persons dying after the Bill is passed, where the real estate is not disposed of by will, it will )ie distributed as if it were personal estate not disposed of by the will. Other clauses are designed to extend to British Protectorates and the Mandated Territories the present provisions of the Administration Act, providing for the rescaling in New Zealand of probates and letters of administration granted in other parts of the British Dominions. This will enable reciprocal provisions to be made in British Protectorates and the Mandated Territories for the resealing in those countries of probates and l letters of Administration granted in New Zealand; * • * VALUABLE INDUSTRY CLOSED. . To tbe blankets and socks which have been exhibited in the House this session to enforce arguments, Mr Semple to-night added a large collection of oil samples obtained, he said, 20 years ago by a German professor from Orepuki shale. It was nothing more than a sin and a, shame, he declared, that this industry was not producing oil, but instead "was closed up, though it had been developed and the machinery was on the site. He hoped the Government which would take control of New Zealand would proceed to do, something. Mr Jones: They are still spending money at the works. Mr Semple: Yes, it is held by an oil monopoly, so that the people will be compelled to buy foreign oil. It looks very suspicious indeed, and there is no duty on crude oil imported from a country which does not trade with a©w Zealand. •,* - • • ADMISSION AGE TO SCHOOLS. The Minister of Education states that the Education Committee of the House of Representatives will meet on October .1 to hear evidence from the New Zealand Educational Institute and the School Committees’ Association in sup- ; port of the admission of children to the State primary schools when they reach the age of five years. «*■ * ■ • SHEEP LOSSES. : Owing to the alarmingly heavy sheep Tosses on the high sheep country in Marlborough, Canterbury, and the Mackenzie country, by the kea, the member for Wairau has asked the . Government immediately to reconsider th© urgent need of the restoration of th« subsidy on kea beaks. Twelve county councils in kea-affected areas have agreed to. make grants for kea beaks if subsidised. The Minister of Agriculture replied that the Government will give reconsideration to the matter, and arrange- ’ onents have been made for obtaining some special information necessary for enabling it to be gone into from all points of view. »»* . * NIGHT NOISES. The statement that if the Government and the municipalities did not soon take effective steps to control all causes of night noises, an appreciable number of people would soon be nervous wrecks was made by Mr Burnett in notice of a question to the Minister in charge of the Police Department, who was asked if he would, in the interests of hospitals, which were so unfortunate as to have dance halls in their vicinity, detail police officers to patrol the street frontages of such halls in order to control traffic and subdue midnight and early-hour noises in the interests of poor, nerve-wracked i patients. * » * » * QUESTION DISALLOWED. Mr Speaker disallowed a lengthy notice of question by Mr Stallworthy, addressed to the Prime Minister, in which he asked the Government to set up a Royal Commission to investigate and report upon the policy, incidence, and administration of the high rate of exchange; also its effect upon the Ottawa Agreements and' overseas national trade. While Mr Stallworthy was reading his question Mr Coates raised a point of order, and Mr Speaker disallowed the question and sugested to Mr Stallworthy that he should frame it in a different form.