Parliament.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3704, 25 August 1906, Page 3

Parliament.

THURSDAY. The following bills were read a first time ; Friendly .Societies, Registration of Births Extension (Sir Joseph Ward) j Maori Land Claims Adjustment and Laws iVmendment, Native Townships Amendment, Horowhemfa Block Amendment, Poukawa Native Reserve (Hon. J. Carroll); Gaming and Lotteries Amendment, Adoption of Children Amendment, Habitual Criminals and Offenders, Juvenile Offenders, Juries Amendment (Hon J. McGowan); Havelock Athenreura and Mechanics’ Institute Incorporation Act 1877 Amendment (Mr J. Allen); Marriages Validation Extension (Sir W. J. Steward); Saturday Universal Half-holiday Bill (Mr Laurenson) ; Farriers (Mr Major); Sandy Point and Grasmere Domains Vesting (Mr Hauan); and Lights on Vehicles (Mr Major). The Address -in - Reply,, after being spoken to by Messrs Hogg, Stallworthy, Ell, Hornsby, Major, T, McKenzie and J. C. Thomson, and briefly replied to by Mr T. Y. Seddon, was carried without division.

FRIDAY

A number of bills were read a first time.

The Poukawa Reserve Bill was read a second time, as was the Adoption of Children Act Amendment and the Registration of Births.

The evening sitting was devoted to the appointing of the Public Accounts Committee and the House rose at 11.20 p.m.

JOTTINGS

When Mr Poole was speaking on the Governor’s Speech, he was interrupted by a muttered interjection from the member for Ashburton. Mr Poole paused for a moment or two, looked steadily in the direction of the interrupter, and then deliberately, and with considerable emphasis, he said: “ Sir, the honourable member for Ashburton is talking in his sleep. At this, members roared with laughter, and cheered Mr Poole. Mr McEachlan was at once upon his feet with some retort, but his voice was drowned in the laughter and cheers with which Mr Poole’s statement was greeted. After another pause, Mr Poole continued with .renewed emphasis—“ lam sorry to think, Sir, that this house has lately become a retreat for inebriates. I pity the victim and I hate the cause.” “In Wellington I have paid from 40s to 50s a cord for firewood, and yet settlers were burning and destroying it in the bush districts because railway rates were too high for them to send the wood to the city. I think it would be far better for the Government to reduce the present charges by half, and make revenue thereby, than to allow this firewood to go out in smoke; but the Government instead preferred to make a loss of a year in carrying polo ponies and racehorses free on the railways.”—Mr Ell. “ I would favour the passing of an act clearing out the whole of the, Asiatics in the country at the present time. (Cries of “Oh.”) The time will come when, as the member for Auckland West had said, we will want every Britisher to help in ousting the on-coming hordes of Asia.”—Mr Hornsby. “ Girls all wanted to be typists and clerks rather than to adopt domestic work, which was more wholesome to them.” —Mr T. McKenzie.