PARLIAMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1926, Page 1

PARLIAMENT

[by TELEGRAPH —rER PRESS ASSOCIATION THE COUNCIL. WELLINGTON, Sept. 2. The Legislative Council met at 2.30 p.ni. Local Elections and Polls Amendment Bill was passed without amendment. Veterinary Surgeons Bill was reported with amendments by the Agriculture Committee. The Minister of Agriculture is empowered to recommend any number of persons to the Board instead of merely one. A clause dealing with the verification of applications for registration, is deleted and a now sub-clause is added to the effect that any person who has practised as a veterinary surgeon in New Zealand for not loss than ten years immediately prior to the commencement of the Act may continue in practice and use the designation veterinary surgeon, if he lodges lii.s name with the'Minister, not later than six months’ after the commencement of the Act, and satisfies him that he has been practising and is of good character and repute. The Council adjourned at 4 p.m. THE HOUSE. The House met at 2.30 p.m. The House immediately proceeded t-o the orders of the day, the Local Bodies’ Loans Bill, Finance Bill. Dentists' Amendment Bill, Workers’ Compensation Amendment Bill, Main Highways Amendment Bill. On the Education Amendment Bill a lengthy discussiou arose on the question of whether or not • the teachers should have the right- of appeal in the matter of appointments, but this proposal was ruled out on the ground it involved an appropriation of Crown monies. The Bill was then read a third time and passed, after an attempt hy Mr Holland to recomit the Bill as a protest against the non-inclusion of the provision for a Board of Appeal. The House rose at 4.12 a.m." till 2.30 p.m.