DICTATIONS TO PREMIER

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2158, 6 April 1908, Page 2

DICTATIONS TO PREMIER

CENTRAL RAILWAY ' j LEAGUE. jer Press Association.) i DUNEDIN, April 5. , Ration representing tho Otagpal Railway League waited on tlijie Minister yesterday, urginjer construction of the Tine. Tlitation pointed out that if the rafas continued, 50,000 acres of Gihds would be opened up, and lOers could be settled. The Looked forward to the time wt lino would bo tlie main tlijaro of the South Island by wijio West Coast. jmo Minister said lie could no r ' moment tell them what the Ujiit would do with regard to aiision of railways when next y estimates were submitted. Sijliad been in Parliament—2l yq found that there had been, mferagm over £60,000 a year, he hno. bringing tlie. total toj £1,270,915, and there was a mount put on the estimates a He was going through Ujntral with tho responsible eij chielly with tho object of be by their advice on tlie mattcgation, and also with a view oija further look into tlicgenelandings of the country. He wu be in a position, wlien the Vf ! of se 9' n £ what they could Uj as railway extension was

tation from the Society lor H ot Women and Children, Mby the Society for the Prothe Health of Women and h also waited on the Prime. A 'lho Rev. W. Curzon-Sig--3 that the deputation’s obllo get the Industrial Selim ■fled so as to allow societies sfiose mentioned to Mv a q in the case of c ail'd-' ..j 1] undesirable surroun lings : : the magistrate might comKl whoso i>urroun<lings u:iijtinst healthy and moral emits. Further, that magisf empowered to deal wum 4rought before them u-.Ji-r trial Schools Act by boi ling ;• rather than by the jurn&l methods of ' the police i ameiidment to the licstijns Act was sought, so as for application by a wife >ty for attachment of a er’s wages for tho support : or children, and to make leiinition that a man wastmey on gambling or drijikb detriment of those deli him bo deemed to have iis family.

}ph said tho Government o the fullest consideration nests and aims of the iSo•t forth. They formed tho igislation which would be own next session, and of personally approved. Very ■cform could be effected' •roceedings could be taken of women who were, under auditions, afraid to pron attachment of wages on behalf for fear of after■es. He agreed that the de-wage-earner in the Act widened. The Government anxious to assist in the m of infant life, and to n who, unfortunately, too ired outside assistance. '