HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The House met at 7.30. Mr Ward gave notice to move present 'Frisco mail service be renewed for three years. Mr Ward, in announcing the appointment of Mr Wm. Watson as president of the Bank of New Zealand, said his salary was £2250 a year, the position to be held during -good behaviour. Tbe Licensing Bill was further amended in Committee. An amendment by Mr G. J. Smith in clause 8 to make the Bill apply to persons who held wine licenses was lost after a loug discussion by 30 to 22. In the same clause an amendment by Mr Tanner to provide that the Act should not apply to the sale of liquor at Bellamy's was carried by 26 to 28. In clause 9, disqualification of auctioneers, commission agents, or brokers, iv regard to sittiug ona Licensing Bench was removed. In clause 10 the penalty for a person disqualified as member of a Licensing Committee was reduced from £50 to £20. In clause 11 an amendment by Mr Collins, that no professional or paid advocate for or against the liquor traffic should be elegible to sit on a Licensing Committee, was carried by 38 to 26. Progress was then reported and the House rose at 2.15 a.m.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 89, 9 October 1894, Page 2
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