Parliament.
-♦ HOUSE OF EEPEESENTATIVES, Friday, Octobeb 12. The Speaker took the chair at 11 30 a.m. The Unclaimed Land 3 Bill wag read a second time. The Sea Fisheries Bill was read a second time. The Minister for Labour proposed the second reading of the Workmen's Wages Bill, stating that it- was designed to. stop the contracting-oufc allowed by a loophole in last year's Act, and" that it also proposed to more securely protect wages, to meet the Benmore case, in which shearers who had struck after doing the greater part of the shearing were not paid for the work they had completed. Sir R. Stout objected that if the Bill allowed a workman to be paid for the work he had done, though the contract had not been completed, ifc was an entire alteration of the law of contract. If it was intended to meet shearing contracts alone, the Minis* ter should propose in his Bill that at the end of every 100 sheep, the man would have the right to demand his money and leave. Such a law would be unworkable. T After a short debate on the Public Works Statement the House went into Committee of Supply, and proi gress reported. The House adjourned at 2.55 a.m.
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Manawatu Herald, 16 October 1894, Page 2
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210Parliament. Manawatu Herald, 16 October 1894, Page 2
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