PARLIAMENTARY.
Legislative Council
By Telegraph —Press Association. Wellington, last night. The Council met at 2.30 p.m. A return was ordered showing the quantity of Native lands purchased under the Lands for Settlement Act. The Council decided not to insist on its amendments to the Lands for SettlementBill.
House of Representatives
EVENING SITTING.
The House met at 7.30 p.m. j Mr Hogg’s Rabbit Nuisance Act I Amendment Bill passed through committee without material amendments. The second reading of Mr Palmer’s ! Local Bodies Goldfields Public Works and Loan Bill was postponed, Acting-Speaker Guinness ruling that, as it was a loan bill, it could only be introduced by Governor’s message. A motion for further consideration in committee of Mr G. W. Russell's Eight Hours’ Bill was negatived by 32 to 20. Mr Barclay’s Shops and Shop Assistants Act Amendment Bill was considered in committee at great length. Eventually, Mr Barclay agreed to abandon that portion of the Bill giving domestic servants a half-haliday.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 193, 22 August 1901, Page 3
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