PARLIAMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1558, 14 September 1905, Page 2

PARLIAMENT.

f ((Peri' P«ess Association.;)' - ' ! ; "Wellington, yesterday, 1 £ ‘ After the telegraph office closed'the Shops and Offices Bill was further con-., aidered.

Sir W. J. Steward moved to inolnde Empire Day in the list of statutory holi» days. This was lost'by 32 to 24. .. i ■■’*!*. A new olause was added on the Fre* . mier’e motion, providing that no female assistant under 21 years of age shall be employed in a shop after 9 p.m,, except on Saturdays and Christmas and New Year’s Eve, provided that the olause shall not apply to the wife or members of the - oooupie/r'e family. - Tbe ■ Bill was then reported, with amendments, and the House rose at -i si a.m. • •' - ■

3 1 AFTERNOON SITTING- ’ L 1 1 Wellington, last night, The Oounoil disposed of several Idea! I Bills. The House met at 2.30. On Mr Seddon’a motion the Dunedin Evening Star aud Lyttelton Times were I deolared to fchave committed broaches'o! I the of privileges of the House by publish-; iog what purported to be a report of pro-. { coediugs at a meeting of the EducationCommission. ~ .j - I Mr Seddon pointed out that in hie speech at the Town HfStl, Wellington, on Monday night, Jas. Allen had disclosed a I portion of what took plaoe at the Education Commission, and on his motion it was decided that a breaoh of privileges had I been committed by the New ZealandTimes, Lyttelton Times, and Ohrietokuroh Press by publishing Mr Allon’s remarks. Mr Seddon intimated that he wonlcl move next day to set up a privileges committee to consider all the oases. EVENING SITTING. The House resumed at 7.80. Amendments in eommittee in the Shops and Offices Bill were agreed to. A lengthy debate then took place on the third reading, members on both sides of the Houso complaining that the Bill was leaving the House in an unsatisfactory state. *