HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 3, 19 June 1886, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

[PBB UNITED PBESB ASSQOLiTIdir.-] ! WEILTNOTr>jr, June 16. The House resumed at 7.80 p.m. _:;', LOANS TO PUBLIC BODIES. „

Sir Julius Togel moved the second reading of tbe Government Loans/to Local Bodies Bill, briefly explaining that ijk was designed to enable i lecal. , bodies to construct certain Public - Works and to empower tbe Govern- .? ment to grant them loans for such purposes. ,i. :; Major Atkinson said that the only difference between this and4he Boada and Bridges Construction Act was that - it enabled these bodies to get money at a lower rate of interest/ spread bver alongpenod. ;

Mr Moss said the bill was a meaauro ; to enable local bodies, to run nior« ■ " easily ;into deVt. Their debenttirei '^ would certainly be Unnegotiaable, : Mr W. C. Buchanan supported the measure, which be considered a la&dable attemjpt to deal with the wants of ; ; local bodies'. ' ' " " .-.; ;-' ".:■■;■>?<?] v'" '..;'' • Mr Hurstbouse gavebis unqiialified .if approval to the bill. : ■■'■'": . : .'\, 7 : ; Messrs Seddon and Ken* supported ■;*- --the bilj ; the former mentioning spine ?. slight objections he had, to iit. '/' '.■ * y *-' Mr Eolleston did not think the bill „ satisfactbryi' but it was all they w.i>ul4 ''' get. ! ■\' m ■•. -' r ' -''- :: ' i, Mr Guinnes approved tf :^T*ffl£jj with some Btnendtaeuts. ; - lv * • ' • ' ru) -'■-<*

Mr Macarthur thought the oill » ; distinct advance towards the «*lutfon;* of local finance. ■■^- :^ ; : f* '.. Mr Smith cordially supported th» U bill. •■ " ' *'. -v^-'f;'^ Sir Julius Yogel, in reply, said it was a mistake to suppose this measure bad Wen copied from the Roods .an£ Bridges Act. Some of the objections he thought might be arranged regard-' ing schools. There were district* which cbuld not provide for theiuettea; m* and this bill opened the road lor th^m 1 tO do SO.': I;:'-;--;--:. ■■■■&) \'-l ; ; -' The kill was read a second tinut en I ' the voices. ; _ V :;;';; V;/^: *■'■ jjfswsßa to Qunrnoirsi ; „. Replying to qUestiens/it was -staited. ;- :> that arrangeniehts would be made lor v providing extra iwlway aceemmodsdbsi .- for passengers on the Napier^W^tfd-'- 1 villoline. ( ■■'y.iii ••:.•:', v ■■^■■■^■■ : ' ■i ■ TBE QtTEENS JFB&EB. '■■ ' ; - / r ; ;' ; - ■■'£' Mr Macandrei brbughit :npjb)i j^-'.^ port of the JointOommlttee containing y thevaddtress to fier Majesty the Qtteen „ on -ihe occasion of Her, Jubilee. ; ,He> v; moved,( That the! substance off 4hf)r-e address^ with the; signatures of -mem- • bets of ibotbl HQOses, :be i^rabled iSoin#- . to Her Majesty. — Agreeito. ; ■~* Sir B. Stout introduced the. Hospital and Charitable Aid Act AmendqteatL^. BflL-.r ■.■..^s-v*'^':^^ .-. ; Major Atkinson iatrodacedthe;oplfe«ie: » nake Harbor Board £ill. -^wfr^M?*? &>. . The House went into Guib|iiittee^oA: the Oue Tree Hytl^sen^dßa|ji :^ - Mr Peacock opposed, the>|^^^||jj;^..c: moved, That the. phairman iea^jkjie^: v chair, which was Jest, by 32 |o 21^.; .. .« ' The Speaker (Sir Maurice O'Rorkf ), who was in charge of ihe bill, ma^# av^i . lengthy explana^on of its purbajeL^ /*, M . Messrs DargsiviUe and flobfes, ;pp^ v posed the bill, amd the f oruaer mo^ed v w te report progress.;;;. -..'..^ "%Z*&&*. ; The debate -was:; inter^p^ b^tlie. . *&.&f adjourhmenlt. 1 : ' ': : v \ _ „;." ['', ■\J ?■ . , r- mtj^^ Mr Ivess resumed the debaie oi|. the second reading 6f the LaH<£'forSettlement Bill, which he supported . on the ground that it wcwldjeaabfe;snail farmers/ to earn their fitinff > more cheaply. VlncominitieeWfould^' prpposs an additional /><tltmaltf fapyk&fig-f-* land under it^provisions. He strWlghr condemned l^nd'.m'ononiidyf'''-'''^'-*^^ v'•■si- . .Mr J. a Buckland said the Bill w*» J aimed at th©(^mpulßdry takings of ' land from one class of people -io'fiv*&--' ( it to: another^ ■ A« it was, lan^w^ii /: ansalesible in. New^alaad, andtfew* was no need consequently iorsucnt a - measure. He swke^ afeXength against f it, and concluded by moving'thalit^ei ■ yreadthis day sixinonths. >^iki 's*&■&*{ h /M|- Joyce advocated a progrejssivi tax as a solution q| the land question^ ' Mr Harper theughtS.a ;eompulsory j^ sale' of land must lead to jobbery, but J ' he was in fsfVor of a ■ system of'-veloifiif^^-tary r*-purehase.. t ■ ;vi ■.>"' < w Mr Duncan and Mr Moss supportedp^ and Mr! O^Connor opposed the Bill. . • ■ ' : • Mr Thompson move 4 the adjoun- :i < f>meiit 6t the, debate, and the Houm ' rose. ; 'S=.-. ■; , "," ; ■ •■*:»■ : _-. >■'