HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 75, 28 November 1913, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

The Home, met at 2.30 p.m. In reply to Sir Joseph Ward, Mr Massey said that the writ for the Lyttelton election had been issued and ■ould not be recalled. The rolls, thereoro, had to close. He announced that the Government had decided not to nako the repeal of the second ballot ipply to the Lyttelton election. The House xvent into committee on ’he Education Amendment Bill.—An imendmont was carried giving boards ■lower to approve lodgings provided for Junior National Scholarship hold're. In connection with tfio change in he existing law extending the date an which householders? annual. meet-, digs might he held, the Minister oxo’a lined that the change would enable •mmrittees in country districts to fix i moonlight night for tlio purpose.

On an amendment moved by Mr G. U . Russell affirming the priniople of ouPrCommittee-one-vote in the election of Education Boards, the Minister stated that he was going into the whole question of the election of Education Boards during the recoss, and the amendment was lost on the voices.— Mr.R. McCallum’s amendment giving committees power to reduce school hours by half-an-hour, during which

religious and oral instruction might be given was lost on the voices. The Rajlway Construction Land Amendment Rill was further considered in committee, the Opposition discussing the Rill on lines hostile to the construction of railways by local bodies' and private companies.—ln reply to Sir Joseph Ward, the Minister declined to put a. clause in the Bill prohibiting borrowing money for the purposes of private lines within thfe Dominipn.—Mr J. Payne disagreed with the principle of the Bill. He aigued that the State should control all railways.—Part V. of the original .Act, providing'for grants of land to companies' constructing railways, was repealed- and the Rill..reported. The Fruit Preserving Industry Bill, providing for raising; {not nmr.e (j tjmn £2500; annually for furthering the fruit industry was read a second time. The House rose iat -1,20 a.m.