PARLIAMENTARY.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
[PEB UXITED PBESS ABSOCIATIOH. t
Wkllixgtojt, This Day,
On the motion for the third reading of tho Expenses of Members of the General Assembly Bill, considerable discussion took place, several members saying it had got through the previous stages without debate entirely by surprise. Seddon protested against the Bill. The Council should not be paid by Statute. The House should vote their payment, and it should not be less than the House received. This Bill actually gare Wellington Members £70 a year more than they now got, while the Wellington Councillors were to get nothing. Peacock opposed the Bill for the same reasons, and Sheehan, Whitaker, Moss and others thought the Bill a very mean way of attacking the Council. Capt. McKenzie thought the members of each House should get only one hundred guineas. Swanson thought the Council would make short work of the Bill, and the experiment of sending it to them was worth, trying. Turnbull moved the recommittal of the Bill, but this was negatived by 30 to 18. The Bill was read a third time. On the motion that the Bill pass Atkinson replied that he repudiated the idea of the Bill being an attack on the Legislative Council, but members of the House had expenses which Councillors had not in visiting their constituents, and lie would like to see both Houses honorarium reduced one half, but it was impossible to carry that. The Bill then finally passed. The following Bills were also read a third time and passed, Crown and Native Land Rating Act Amendment, Property Assessment Act Amendment, Eating Act Amendment, Railway Construction and Land Act Amendment, and Property Law Consolidation Bill. The West Coast Peace Preservation Act Continuance Bill was read a third time and passed, but on the question of pass-* ing its title Hutchison wished to protest against the measure, and accordingly divided the House, the title being carried by 33 to 8. The House rese at 2.10.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 38, 1 September 1883, Page 2
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