BILLS BEFORE PARLIAMENT.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 131, 22 June 1880, Page 3

BILLS BEFORE PARLIAMENT.

LODGERS PROTECTION BILL, Introduced by Mr Stewart provides:— If any superior landlord shall levy or authorize to be levied a distress on anygoods, or chattels of any lodger for arrears of rei-t due to such superior landlord by his immediate tenant, such lodger may serve such superior landlord, or the bailiff or other person employed by him to levy such distress, with a declaration in writ'ug made by such lodger setting forth that such immediate tenant has no right of property or beneficial interest in the goods or chattels so distrained or threatened to be distained upon, and that such goods or chattels are the property or in lawful possession of such lodger, and also setting forth whether any and how much rent is due, and for what period, from such lodger to his immediate landlord ; and such lodger may pay to the superior landlord, or to the bailiff or other person employed by him as aforesaid, the rent, if any, so due, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to discharge the claim of such superior landlord ; and to such declaration shall be annexed a correct inventory, subscribed by the lodger, of the goods, and chattels referred to in the declaration ; and if any lodger shall make or subscribe sucli declaration and inventory knowing the same or either of them to he untrue in any material particular, he shall he deemed guilty of a misdemeanour.

PARTY PROCESSIONS introduced by Mr Pyke provides : —“From and after the commencement of this Act, any body of persons who shall meet and parade together, or join in procession, for the purpose of celebrating or commemorating any festival, anniversary, or political event related to or connected with any religious or other distinctions or differences between any classes cf Her Majesty’s subjects, or of demonstrating any such religious or other distinction or difference, nnd who shall bear, wear, or have amongst them any firearms or other offensive weapons, or any banner, emblem, flag, or symbol the display whereof may he calculated or tend to create a breach of the peace or to provoke animosity between Her Majesty’s subjects of different religious persuasions, or who shall he accompanied by any music of a like nature or tendency, shall ho and he deemed to he an unlawful assembly, and every person thereat shall he and be deemed to he guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall upon conviction thereof he liable to he punished accordingly. Any Justice or Justices of the Peace shall and may proceed, with such assistance as shall he necessary, to the place where any procession or meeting of persons hereby declared to he unlawful shall he held or talce place, and such Justice, or one of such Justices, or some other person by his or their order, shall then and there read and repeat aloud to the persons so assembled a command or notice to disperse, in the words or to the effect following, that is to say,—‘ Our Sovereign Lady the Queen chargeth and oommandeth all persons being here assembled to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their own homes. God save the Queen.’ ”

teachers’ pension bill.

This Bill provides for the establishment of a fund for making provision for teachers who may from time to time become incapacitated from performing their duties by reason of old age, ill health, or bodily injury. It provides that a deduction of £G per centum shall be made from the pay of all teachers from and after the Ist day of January, 1881, and the moneys from timo to timo accruing from such deductions shall, together with all fines and penalties which may be imposed upon teachers, and the whole of the moneys which under section 5 of this Act are payable out of the Consolidated Fund, and also together with the interest accruing from the investment of the receipts of the fund, be paid into some Bank to be appointed by the Board, to the credit of an account to be called the “Teachers’ Pension Account”; and the said account shall be operated upon by means of cheques signed by the Actuary and by such one or more members of the Board as the Board may from time to timo authorise to sign cheques. Any teacher who shall have attained the age of Go years may retire from the servico or may be superannuated, provided he shall have served not less than 15 years : and the said teacher shall be entitled to receivo a pension on the following scale {that is to say) : For each year of service not less than 15, and not exceeding 40, one-sixtieth of the average rate of pay during the last three years of such service for each full year of service.

When a teacher has served for 15 years, and shall have become unable to perform his duties any longer, either from mental or bodily incapacity, provided such incapacity shall not be the result of irregular or intemperate habits, such teacher shall receive such pension as he would have become entitled to if he had attained the age of G 5 years ; and such pension shall only be granted on the certificate of a medical examiner that the teacher is unfit for duty. After the passing of this Act no person shall be permitted to enter the service whose age shall exceed 25 years at his last birthday, and who shall not produce a certificate signed by a medical examiner that he is in sound bodily and mental health. Provided that whenever it is expedient to secure the services of some person of known ability exceeding the said age of 25 years, any Education Board may appoint such person, but he shall only be entitled

i Vnefits from the fund as the nine. Provided, further, or any Education Board of such person, may secure the -•,-r ocrcfit provided by this Act on paying V ;; V fund such extra contribution as the Actuary may determine to be necessary. the fisheries act, 1880. p,:p provides for the more effectual u nt management, protection, and ’lmprovement of fisheries, and the registration of boats and brands, the licensing of persons engaged therein, and the fees to be paid for such licenses. . Prescribing conditions and restrictions, and the carrying and sale of the produce. The appointment of local Inspectors of Fisheries, and prescribing the relative powers and-duties of Chief Inspectors and Local Inspectors. Prescribing for every fishery a close season,” or “ close seasons ” in every year, as may be most suitable in the various parts of the Colony, for any species of fish, oysters and seals respectively, during which it shall he unlawful for any persons so take any fish, oysters, or seals of such species respectively from such fishery, or in any way to injure or disturb the same. Prescribing the minimum size or weight of any fish, oyster, or seal that may be taken or carried away from any fishery. Limiting the size, when wet, of the mesh on the square, or in extension from knot to knot, of nets and seines to be used in any fishery, or altogether prohibiting the use of nets of any sort. . ... Fixing the time or times during which dredging over the ground of any fishery shalfbe prohibited, or prohibiting the use of any particular engines, tackle, or apparatus for taking the produce of any fishery. Reserving from public use any natural oyster beds’, so as to prevent their destruction, for granting leases of portions thereof to individuals for proper cultivation. Closing altogether, for such periods as he shall think fit, any fishery when its future productiveness is endangered. Setting apart any river or other fresh or salt wates for the natural or artificial propagation offish, oysters, or seals, and the protection of young fish, or fry, or spawn at all times and especially upon its importation into the colony. Defining the limits of, and what waters shall be deemed to be, and what shall be beemed the mouth or other bo”ii y of, any river, creek, stream, bay, estuary or lake, and fixing a distance from the mouth of any or every river, creek, or stream within which nets and fixed engines or apparatus for taking fish are not to be used. Excluding any part of the colony from the operation of this Act, or of any regulation or regulations made thereunder.