PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2487, 30 September 1922, Page 4

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

! Tile lion. MacGregor, in the Legislative (bulled yesterday, moved the second reading of his Juries Amendment Bill, providing for majority verdicts in all but capita charges. After two hours tho debate was adjourned. Mr Campbell, in the course of the debate on (be Imprest Supply Bill yesterday, dealt with the high cost of freezing to farmers, contending that co-operative freezing companies were more worthy of consideration in the matter of remissions of taxation than proprietary companies. The Prime Minister, speaking later on, said be admitted that the high cost of freezing was to some extent due to the high taxation. The cost of production must come down, and he was doing his best to get back to normal as quickly as possible In answering criticism of the Education Department in the House of Representatives yesterday, the Hon C. J. Parr said he was not adverse to the appointment of women inspectors as an experiment. About half the children were girls and two-thirds of the teachers were women, so that there might with advantage be a number of women inspectors. Eighty-five per cent of the children attending the schools were found to have bad and diseased teeth, and in spite of the bad times he was pleased to say that the Government was able to cope with this problem and the school dental system now in vogue here was winning approbation in other parts of the world. Junior High Schools had got past the experimental stage in other countries, and why should they not try the experiment here. It would be done at a small cost for he proposed to use, the same schools and the same teachers. All that would happen was that the children would be taught in a different way. In this decision he had the best educational authorities behind him.