Parliamentary Affairs.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 15 October 1913, Page 3

Parliamentary Affairs.

With the holding up of the Land Bill, the prospects of the business of the session being completed by the end of November are not regarded as so bright as they were a few nays ago. The opinion is now freely expressed that the session may last until about the middle of December.

Mr. J. G. Coates (Kaipara) has given notice to ask the Minister for Public Health, by whose authorit}' the public health officer a£ Helensville insisted upon vaccinating every soul on hoard the steamer Tuirangi on August 31, and threatened that if the passengers did not submit the steamboat would be anchored amidstream and the passengers sent back by the return trip.

At a public political meeting ad-> dressed by Liberal M's P. at Palmerston North the following resolution was passed :—"That this meeting gratefully recognises fSir Joeeph Ward's patriotic action in accepting the leadership of the Liberals, and hopes; that before long he will be again guiding the destinies of the couutry." This was carried amid loud applauso and with cheers for Sir Joseph Ward, 'I he Gaming Amendment Bill, httro-i duced by Mr G. Hunter, M. P. fnr Wai-i pawa, to provide 30 additional racing days for small racing clubs, hunt anc trotting clubs, will probably come uj for the second reading in the House o P,epipsentatives on Monday, Octobei 20, The general opinion seems to hi that the measure has a good chance o getting through the second reading stage on a division. As a private Bil it cannot go further at this period of lh^ session, but it is thought not unlikely! that if the divlson goes as it is expected to go, the Government may take up the Bill. The repeated representations ol the country clubs which were wiped out by the Pacing Commission have undoubtedly made some impression upon members, and it is quite probable that these bodies will be granted some measure of redress, - ... , ■