A Parliamentary Note-Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 194, 5 November 1927, Page 8

A Parliamentary Note-Book

Free Rein on Public Fort: (THE SUN'S Parliamentary JteporfrJ WELLINGTON, Tub. National and local grievances aired in the House of Represents:ct to-day when members were given t free rein to discuss the Public With Statement and later the Public Wei Estimates. The Prime Minister announced it he could not put on the table all J* cards in the Arapuni dispute, 2 he said the difficulties are bai smoothed. It was 2.22 a.m. before the H* was satisfied to allow the estimus to go through committee. In the Legislative Council the Sk* and Offices Amendment Bill, toet? lilisers Bill, the Introduction Plants Bill, and the Mining A»® ment Bill were passed. In the Ffisers Bill, the clause removed K * amendment of the Agricultural Pastoral Committee, requiring *"*, ment of the forms in which int - ents occur, was reinserted, an* “ Bill passed in its original form. * * * His Old Leader The discovery that building tions are likely to obscure {ro !“ ’ , the national memorial to leader, the Rt. Hon. R. J. Sed®*-’’ caused Sir Joseph Ward lively C ln the House of Representative*-; evening Sir Joseph drew the MM of the Government to the is® some people had acquired land “ ’ of the memorial in Sydney - J cemetery and were going to « building which would block view of the monument. He urS ‘ the Government should tale action to protect what had bee by the Government of 1906. Getting Weary The consistent late nights liament, and the steady, . . destroying toil of stonewall do not appeal to the me ® esc Napier, Mr. J. Mason. He * . notice to ask the Prime Mi -• he will consider a revision Standing Orders of the to provide for some means 01 j^rt More than one member Wwished for the closure seve during the past five n 10 , 111 !®’•it doubtless will wish for it d | next week or tw o that the a j sit. * * ! Gaming Frosecutions 1 “How long is this far^ e r aJe* last” asked Mr. V. H. P° tie “, for Roskill, in the House & pf sentatives when referring w sistence of the police In ta prosecuting newspapers fo f yjK? 1 cation of competitions, for of which prizes were offere • g ; , It devolved upon the Spe@ Sir Charles Statham. to & Potter that he should be ing a question, and not conB !L e pcS- 1 j “Well, then, how te | going in this thing? Mr * v\ arr 5 "Are these prosecutions view of the remarks of tn in dismissing the charges i and other cases 7” Vf \ The Minister of Defence, * 1 P. J. Rolleston, merely s “' ai e » police were bound to , , : L letter of the law,