PARLIAMENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 504, 6 November 1909, Page 3

PARLIAMENT.

In the House of Representatives on Thursday, the following Bills passed the; second reading stages : Wellington Water supply Loan Moneys Diversion (Mr Luke), Waimari Drainage Act Admendment (Mr Baume), Ellesmere Domain Board Empowering (Mr Rhodes). Mr Craigie moved the secona reading of the Canterbury Agricultural College Bill, the object of which was to provide fairer representation of South Canterbury on the Board.

Hon. Mr Fowlds objected to the Bill as an attempt to deal with the matter in piecemeal fashion. The College, he said was a Dominion institution. He suggested that the Bill should stand over for fuller consideration during the recess, and if necessary hS would bring in a Bill next session to admit outsiders as students at the College. He hoped. New Zealanders would never become so parochial as to prevent anyone in the Dominion from attending the College. At the suggestion of the Premier, the Bill was referred to the Education Committee atter being read a second time.

Sir Wm. Steward moved the second reading of the Elective Executive Bill, which had been introduced the previous session.

Sir Joseph Ward, in opposing the Bill, said that the proposal was impossible as it would bring the Government to a standstill. It was wrong to say that the Bill would get rid of party system.