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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 17, 6 August 1886, Page 3

According to tho census of 1880, the population within the l’ahiatua Hoad District is as follows:—Males, 335; females, 138; total, 478. In the Council on Tuesday Mr Poacock moved, that in the opinion of this Council, the prison regulations should l»e altered so as to conform with clause 14 of the Prison Act, lrtH'2, whereby the treatmeir. of ]H>raons confined for safe custody, and unconvicted of crime, may be made as little oppressive as possible. The motion was agreed to. The Public Works Minister, in answer to Mr Guinness, said ho had given instructions to his department thai skilled labour was to bo paid for at ordinary current rates, but that as regards unskilled lalsir (is a day was to bo given to all men subsenuently employed. The Treasurer, in answer to Mr lleetliam on Tuesday, said he thought the question of providing a |iortrait gallery in the Parliamentary buildings wiu> one for the consideration of the Speakers in the first place. He agreed that it would bo desirable to have the portraits, for he had remarked only recently, that it would bo difficult to find anywhere a hundred gentlemen amongst whom there were so many strikingly handsome. A well got olf joke Sir Julius. Do you include yourself, though ?