PARLIAMENTAR

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 142, 30 June 1888, Page 2

PARLIAMENTAR

I FB* ONITRD Ml-gBB ASSOCIATION."** ■■ t A ..y^MaaworoN* June 38. In the Legislative Council. * Mr Peters presented a petition signed by 73 inhabitants ofthe Colony against the Contagious Diseases Act. SirG. 8. Whitmore asked the At-torney-General whether schoolmasters '; in the" Education Department are !- allowed by the regulations to act as i clerks to local bodies without special i permission of the Education Board ; f* and whether siich schoolmasters havo - it m their power to close the publio a* schools for the purpose of attending*** - ™ their work as such servants of loca^H bodies? The Attorney-General, in re^^H said that State schoolmasters had t____\ right to close their schools in order4^| permit them to attend other duties/^J Mr Miller anoved that the following "1 mombors constitute tho committee * l appointed to inquire into th© working:* ] of the totalisator, viz., Dr Pollen/ '"" Messrs Pharazyn, Hart, Menzies, • Peters, Swanson, and the mover.— A- ; Agreed to. Af. A The Council, at 4.25,1 adjourned tor th© following day. 'JyS. | In the House of Representatives; * I The fallowing Bills were .introduced i read a first time :--Major Jackson— i The Ngaruawahia Cemetery Reserves ' Leasing Bill. Mr Graham— Tho . j Wajroa Harbor Endowment Bili. } Sir G. Grey— A Bill to provide for.-I granting to wine-growers licenses to I distil spirits for fortifying wines. 1 Mr Walker— Tho Mount Somersßoal 4 Board Empow ering Bill. "Dr Fitchett ( —A Bill to amend the law relating tp ; ' private tramways. Mr G. F> Rich- \ ardson — The Land Act Amendment / sm. a / Mr Levestam moved the seconii reading of the Animals. Protection? Act Amendment Bill, which provides for the imposition of a fine not exceed* ing £5, instead of a fine of £5 as pr* vided in the Act. | Mr Fulton said he was informed that some native game, especialß"**"^ ducks, was being slaughtered out of existence, and he should in committee endeavor to get provision made td prevent this. ■ ' A Mr Bruce agreed with Mr Fulton^ A and remarked that pigeons, being easy to shoot, were being exterminated. ■-...■ After some further discußsionUho motion was carried on the voices. \T^ The Licensing Comml^tees/Election^ Bill was committed. ' * A* Mr Fulton moved a new clause^ vidingthat "ratepayer" should include A all adult persons, of either sex, who had resided in the district for not lose than six months. This clause, ho pointed out, was in the Bill last session and was passed iby the House. The persons most interested in the licen 7 sing business .were women, and bLy . hoped the House would not take rrontv| them, as well as from mea, the privi^| leges they formerly had. . f«fl Mr Hobhs Supported this clotP^ and hoped the House would carryV ft by an overwhelming majority, Ife regretted that the Government haX not introduced the measure, consider^w ing it their duty to deal with such a J question. 1 Mr Taylor Supported the clause, r and Dr Hodgkinson opposed it. Several other members having spoken, Mr Steward (who was in charge of the Bill) explained why ie^ had not brought this clause in again; and said he would support the pror posal if it were made in a separate Bill. But in this Bill, however, heti^ objects would be defeated. • ~"~.a.y-.. ■■- The second reading of the new clause was agreed to by 35 to 27. The House rose at 11 p.m. June 29. The third reading of the Customs Duties BiU was postponed tuT Tuesday. ■-. The Premier moved that the House go into Committee of Supply to consider the Estimates. Mr Seddon moved the adjournment of the debate, which was agreed to by 43 to 24, and the debate was postponed till Tuesday. The Premier moved the adjournment of the House, to whioh several members' protested. Mr Bruce said although hg^yeted. for the adjournment he would say*^ that'noWjsae tariff question was settled " he, for one, did not want to see the Government leave the benches. The Prepler said he would place the Estimates on the Order Paper for Tuesday, and insist on tlieir being gone on with. The House rose at 10 p.m.