PARLIAMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1923, Page 4

PARLIAMENT

! L ItV TELKOItAI’Il —J’Klt I’MESS ASSOCIATION.] AY ELLINGTON July 21. . ; I!K.I’LfES T< t QK KSTIOXS. I To-day Ministers replied to questions I on the Order Paper. -Among the re- ! plies were the following: - I Tiiat tile dillieiiliy aheut daylight j saving, if brought inlo operation in ' Xew Zealand, is thai it w ifi ailect sol i- | oiisly the primary industries ol the i country. Tlis was the experience of | Australia, where the Act had to he repealed after being in operation only ' a comparatively short time. Ihe Oovi eminent. however, would lie prepared ! to consider the proposal to alter one | lime ti exactly twelve hours opposite j (I reciiwich time, and this, w hile il- | leasii ilily would have to he considered, j would give an addilonal liall-an-liom : ef daylght in the evening. ■ That there is no authority to •1 i• tribute the balnm e of the Kaitaiigata : iclief funds to surviving represent!!- ! tives of the vii tints of the disaster, j That in view of the necessity ol con- . fining expenditure af the present time i io essential services, the (lovcnimeiit | regrets that- it cannot see its way to j provide for subsidies to lihraiies dnrI iug the current. linaiieial year, j That as all previous attempts to esj | ahlisli reciprocity ill respect of pensions have failed, it. is hardly likely ■ that the Australian Covernment will ! consider favourably any further icpiv- • scutaiions that may be made to them, j Tlii? mnitor of milking: I’ri'sli ovt*rturc»> • will, however. In* jiivon oonsidornti* n | Thai th* qtiohlioit of making provision for a] penis against tlu* dooisions of t!u» IVnsioiis Hoard is receiving tlic roiisideration of the Om'ornincut.