LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
! Wellington, September 30. I The Speaker ruled that the Government | Loans to Local Bodies' Act Amendment ; Bill and Land for Settlements Bill, were appropriation Bills, and consequently could not be amended by the Council. The Land for Settlements Bill and Westland, Grey, etc, Counties Vehicle Licensing Bill were put through their final stages. The Shop and Shop Assistants' Bill was further considered in Committee. Sir George Whitmore moved the excision of the word " closed " in the interpretation class, the effect being to allow shop-owners to keep their premises open although their assistants are relieved froBQ duty. The amendment waa agreed to by 16 to 4. Clause s— Providing for weekly half-holiday—-was amended in the direction of imposing a fine of L 5 on any shop employer who refused to give the holiday. The Bill as amended was reported and ordered to be read a third time on Menday.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 45, 1 October 1892, Page 2
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