LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1896, Page 2

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

(Per Presa Association.! . Wellington, Sept. 29. ! The Legislative Conned met at 2.30 ' p.m. 1 The Uriwera District Native Beserve , Bill was read a second time on the . motion ofthe Minuter of Education and < referred to the Native Affairs Committee. , The Tauranga Educational Endow-. ; t tnent Reserves Bill passed its final stages. | The Minister of Education moved thd j j second reading of the Eight Hours Bill j j and a long debate- ensued. The Hons. i . Jennings and Jenkinson who represent j i labour in the Council, were both sure thafc [ the result of tho shortening of the hours I of labour Co 45 hours a week would be , i lowering the rate of wages, bnt the Hon. i Mr Bolt and the Minister attacked these j contentions. j The general feeling ot the speeches j was in opposition to the measure. j An amendment to read the Bill a second time six months hence was proposed I by the Hon. Mr McLean and carried by | 15 to 13, the BUI thus being rejected. The division list was as follows: — Ayes (for tha Bill, 13), :— Stewart, Barmcoat, Kerr, Kelly, Bigg, Jcnes, Jenkinson, Morris, Bolt, Montgomery, Feldwick, Jennings, W. C. Walker. Noes (for the amendment, 15), :—Reynolds, L. Walker, Richardson. Baillie, Acland, Scotland, Shrimski, MrGregor, Kenny, Bonar, Snevens, Johnston, Grace, McLean, Holmes. In Committee, new clauses were added to the Government Loans to Local Bodies' Act Amendment Bill permitting County Council to raise a loan and strike rates for repairs of bridges destroyed by Hoods, etc. Progress was then reported, and the | Council adjourned at 5 p.m. j