HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 41, 16 July 1885, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

p The House met at 2.30 p.m. , -: CONQUSQATIQNAL INCORPORATION BILL/ The r Congregational Incorporation ' BilLAvaa read a third time atid.paßßed, . ... '. ANSWEBSfTO QUESTIONS. '' l;>y-> . Replyiug .to^ questions, it was stated that.tlie Government "coiild.not grunt a special- traiu for school cjHldreh. and the district served by the Wellington-Mas-terton Railway m order ;tha^j they may visit the Wellingtpu Industrial Exhibition.; cheap;excursionß wpuliiibe run.— ; Thafa'petitioh fiiid been received from Fiji praying- for annexation by a portiou ofthb ' inhal)itauts.r-That f till, informa--tion respecting the district railways pioiposocfto be'-vpurchijaed by the colony > would be laid on the tablo shortly.. • "'.■•■' MO. 10^8. ' r Ut Fisher's motion, That i>2ooo. be placed on the estimates to properly form stacets oil the reclaimed land, Wellin^\tati', was IpsLs-rA'* motion was carriel for' appointing' a committee to consider whe.th.er it was advisable or otherwise of J printing under contract with private offißes any part of the. Government priuting. ■ . . • „ EMPLOYMENT OF FEMALES BILL. . pn the Motion ,tbat tho report of the •.committee -oh" the .Employ rrrerit' .of- Females and Others J Act 1881 Amendment 3jil^e'a^e,e,d- to, there was a^long' -^w-' dii^sion. ;> .toii th^ bill beinst recommitted, TVIr Fitzherbert : moved an addition toclause'3j: providing that no young person^ feha.ll: be Employed; f <?r* more thair; 48 .hours i)er iweek, or; 8£ hours'. per day.' , ■ Amendment carried on the voices. The; House rose at 5.30 p.m. The House resumed at 7.30 p.m. .. An amendment was moved— That Resident Magistrates or "the inspector m the district may, 'incase of emergency, allow ; y6ung persons. to work overtinie.in ,:fabtoriea. • ' . ,-, . ..... -. . . „: ■ ;■... "■ On a division the amendment; was. car- ; ried by .35 .t0, 25. ''. ./. ,* * ' . Mr Boss^ moved a. further amendment —That m such cases it should not* be. cbmpuis'ory to any young person to work suchdvertime. . > -:.,.*' , • Amendment negatived on the voices. \ ; , Bill reported with amendments, read a third time, arid passed. • ..;': i. v ; . : SCHOOL COMMITTEES BILL., , , •Oh. Mr Stewart's motion .that the HojisQigb into Committee .on the Schoo. Committees BUI, Mr W. F.,- Buckla,4d. moved thatthe bill -be read this day six. months;'— : . - ... On a "division, the ' motion for going i into cpmmltte.e^ was carried by SB. to 15. The motion forgoing into committee ■ on the Armed . Constabulary Amendment , Bill, and (jaming and; Lotteries ■ Amend--ment Bill was carried. .-;.(. , ? GAMING :AND LOTTERIES ; The House went into committee on-the Gaming and Lotferies • Act : (Hobbs) . ■ Th^. billidoes away with sweeps,- and pro- : vides for penalties on persons exhibiting ; placards,., or. adye.rtising. betting houses,.; fp^liJtt^ne's.^After a.shpH discussion the {bill? passed^^^ through i Committee without ; amehdments.. , . ■ ."•"■". '••■■•■'■.■'•■ PROGRESS OF! BILLS. ■ The House, went into committee on the School. /.Committee Election 1 Bill, which wa,s /'paiiseil. i; Mr* Downie Stetrart moved- an. addition; of three clauses, the : : principal one being, that each child^shioiufd attend -school on 30 days of each quarterly terrh. ' The diaiisea i .were: agreed tb' , and;., the . bill ..adopted with- amendments, , as "was also the " Armed Cohstabulary Amendment Bill. The Gaming , and Jjotteries.Act was read.a third , time and ; passed. r "The debate oh tlie read ifij? -of the Hospital and Ghantablb Aid Bill was resumed by Mr Peacock, who . said that the present system Avith all its'; faults was better than, the proposals before the House., He would oppose , its passage. '• '■ ;•. • •' :'■;. "- ""'■■ Thursday. ....,.;.. . .AID; .BILL.- ; - i- < ifessrs Guiness, . Brown, Buchanan, • Le'vestam, Rees, and Hatoh ' supported the aaebnd. reading. • : ;• .; v ' Messrs Gore, W. White, Newman, ancl Hurst opposed the bill. .• ■ Mr Pyke said the principle that all parties should contribute alike wasexcel- :, lent, but he did not approye of the man- ' ncr inlwhicK it was proposed under the bill to carry it out. If the bill was carried the. result, so far as Otagb was con-, earned, that Board would be composed of; 40 gentlemen who .wpuld have to meet m Dunedin to administer charitable aid, m that he discovered the germ of a GoI vernment local body scheme, and he would' endeavor to .amend it m Committee. „..•-; .„.;.•.' ■The Premier said it was entirely- misleadirig,4q "say that . one large ; Board should manage all the institutions m one district. -■ It was distinctly; provided that > each institution should . b> incorporated. ; He did riot say the bill was hot open to amendment, and wlien m Committee the Government' would say .what : amendments would be. agreed to; Messrs Stewart, Lake, and Joyce spoke m favor of the bill. . ■■ Mr Fergus moved the adjournment of the debate, and the House rose at 12,20.