HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 15, 16 July 1885, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

[PER UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION^ Wekungion, July 14. NBW MBMBKB. Mr Ivess, member fer Wakanui, took the oath and his seat. . •QUESTIONS. Replying to questions, it was stated that. — Steps would beat once taken for including the compound known as _ "Rough of Rats" under "The Poiaens : Act, 1871." NOTICB OF MOTION. Sir Julius Yogel gave- notice to, «*-<>•?• K on Tuesday tbat tbe House: go into Committee to consider the following : resolution. — That the Government; be* *.- requested te arrange a fresh service between San Francisco and Auckland for five yeara, at a cost not exceeding £30,00 tV a year. ''i-/i ' ;''■'- ."'.,'' LOCAL BOM -8 FIKANCB AJTO. POWERS BILL. . Major Atkinson resumed the debater .- on the second reading of the Local I'-*'1 '-*' Bodies Finance and Powers* Bill: ."'He said ho regretted the Government had decided to make it a party measure,' as : he considered it should be free) frem party bias. ..,*'' '''..-""* '''' '' ' " :i * ? ''- The Hon. Mr Stout congratulated the leader ef the Opposition en the attitude . he had taken up on the bill, but he contended that, by the speech be had just made, he had altogether given up . the Reads and Bridges Con at ruction Acti .; He denied that the Government' made any proposals Tor constructing the. roads - out of the Consolidated Fund. 'They merely teld the people. they muat tax themselves before the Government^ assisted them. . Mr Beetham said ene noticeable featnre in the bill waa that' ne proviaiba waa made as to the nature of the werk to be i undertaken. d d, ".. { Mr Hurst would have been glad to ' have seen the Local Government Billed placed before members some time previous to the meeting of Parliament. The Cowan looked on tbe -bill' as aX > premise made by the Government in favoar of local government, and it ahould be the endeavour ot every mem*' ber to make the meaaure acceptable to the country. Mr Fiaher hoped the syatem ef subst-. i dies would not came iate forced Hej . would deprecate borrowing in any form. . , Mr W. F. Buck laad supported the j Bill, but would attempt to amend itiniCommittee. ""'' - ■ ; .'•* M r Hursthouse considered that while ' [ he eelony was pledged to English moneylenders for tbe construction of roads in outlying districts they had a fair claim in , the expenditure. Mr Pyke thought tbe bill was so modi • fied by the Government that there was but little harm in it new. 1 Mr Holmes supported the steead reading ' '* Mr Menteith was disappointed with i the bill, which he argaed, was conceived 1 ' upon circumstances which were not ap- , plicable to circumstances. At 1.16 a.m. the second reading waa carried en the voices, and the Hou«e adjourned. July 15. j The Gaming aad Lotteries Act was J. , read, a third time and, paaaed. . Y.-.^.y y. The debate on the s« eond reading « ' tiie Hospital and Charitable Aid Bill waa resumed by Mr Peacock, who said that the present system with* ail its faults was better than the proposals before the House. .''....••*•■■•'■•'•■,,'-•.,•?!' This Day. r The Hon. Mr Richardson, Mesara Guiness, Brown, Buchanan, Levestain, ' Rees, and Hatch supported the- seexma .'.. * reading. Messis Gore, W. White, Newman, and Hurst opposed the Bill. •' Mr Pyke said the principle that aU ' ' parties should contribute alike was excellent, hut he did not approve of " the questionable way in which it was proposed, under the Bill, to carry' it - ' ' out. If the Bill was carriedthe result would be, so far aa Otago was concerned, that the committee would be composed of 40 gentlemen who woiildr have to meet in Duuedin to administer' charitable aid. In that he discovered a germ of the Government local body scheme, aud He would endeavor to ; amend it in committee. The Premier said it was misleading . to say one large board manages all the institutions in one district. It waa distinctly provided that each institution Should be incorporated. He did apt " say the Bill was not: open to amendment, aad when in committee the Government -would say what amendments would be agreed to. - ; Messrs Stewart, Lake, and Joyca . •poke in favor af the Bill. - The House rose at 12.20.