A Parliamentary Note-Book

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 217, 2 December 1927, Page 8

A Parliamentary Note-Book

Tu'o Big Issues Licensing CfA rbitration (TUESVSSP ... .. WELLINGTON. To-d»v More interest was displayed sitting of the Legislative Council l is ° evening than in the discussions b th' House or Representatives. The bate in the Upper House. was singularly dull and the secc reading was carried on the v o j ff . Amendments will be moved in co mittec. In the meantime a dreary strngg* was going on in the Lower House ovethe Industrial Conciliation and tration Bill, against which a s , 01 .. and determined resistance was by several quarters of the Houae. i conference was demanded by onpoents of the Bill and Mr. Coates ev e -. tuallv agreed to report progress g, that negotiations could be effectec among members to see if comprotnis. proposals can be formulated aad passage of the Bill expedited. The House ad. ourned at l.tt M , : will sit at 11 to-day. The Council passed the Insurant, Companies' Deposits Amendment ft and the Contributory Negligence BiT Mangled But Alive "I have seen human wreckage, buI doubt if I have seen a human beta; mangled so severely as this Rill •»,, mangled during its progress 'hroogj the Labour Bills Committee.” This is what Mr. J. A. Lee, Auckland Ea» thought of the Industrial Concfla tion and Arbitration Amendment Bfl: as it returned to the House of Repnseutatives for committal. The Hon. W. Nosworthy reminded Mr. Lee by interjection that the BUI had a wonderful life. Mr. Lee: Yes. but eight of hs lives have gone, and it seems that the last is hanging by a very slender thread. Yet I doubt whether the Minister in charge is anxious to apply Plunket Society methods to it. Music Copyright The operations of the Australia Performing Rights Association ire questioned by Mr. E. J. Hovirt Christchurch South, who Is to ask the Attorney-General whether he will hire legislation framed to compel the association to disclose what copyright* it holds and to fix by legislation the fees to be charged by the association. At present, he said, this association cat charge what fees it likes, in spite of the fact that it may only hold a small percentage of the copyright of any piece of music. ii-: ?tr Fathe- - ~%ristmas It is perhaps a little early for Yuletide stories, but sleepy members of Parliament were provoked to weary laughter at one o'clock this morninr by the retort of Mr. W. J. Jordan to Mr. YV. P. Lysnar's interjection. "Tie will be here till Christmas if ve go on.” Mr. Jordan said: And we will ge: no further. Mr. Lysuar: We will stay till Christmas to get the Bill through. Mr. Jordan: Yes, and let the honourable gentleman grow some whiskers and come down the chimney and we all will hang up our stockings. Mr. Jordan a little later was called to order for referring to Mr. Lysnar i as Father Christmas. Facetious Labourites It might have been a genuine As- ; sire to improve the fabric of the me»v | ure, or it might have been the provision of opportunities to talk that j persuaded Labour members to ad; 1 vance 11 amendments to the Industrial i Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill before the resumption of the committee debate in the House of | Representatives yesterday. Seven of these amendments were alternative suggestions for the title of | the Bill. The Industrial Disputes Extension of Limitation of Arbitration Bill was suggested by Mr. J. Me ; Combs, Lyttelton, and other members : sought to add Repeal, Suspension, An- ! nulment, Limitation, Repudiation ant I Trade Union Prevention to the I tiue. Similar monotony characterised the i amendments which Labour members ■ asked to have inserted Into the clause dealing with the farming industryMr. P. Fraser, Wellington Centra}wanted pig farming excluded; Mr. *■ J. Jordan, Manukau. thought bee farming should be outside the scope l of the Act. and Mr. H. T. Armstrong, i Christchurch East, went one degree further anti wished to see P° u "” farming safeguarded from the operaI tion of the provision. Mr. Lysnar's Flourish For a midnight speech. eEti-r 1 heavy sitting on the previous nign. Mr. W. U. Lysnar, Gisborne, did t»- ; well in the House of Representnthf’ i this evening in telling the Minister _ Labour just where he stood on Arbitration Bill. Pointing his nnP ! at the Minister, and getting worked up. the member for G’ 3 ® o said: “I am as anxious as any m . her of the House to get home. _ I am prepared to stay here tin cn mas to see this Bill through u Minister will go on with it- , ectly he weakens —and let this S will consider my position wbetner - is worth while to stay in to e “ and see things through.” Labour Members: What is - position? You don’t do muefl ■ now. . Mr. Lysnar was not to be “fhh bit Addressing the Minister, ana wi forefinger still pointed accusingi .. i the direction of the Chairman o : mittees, he went on: ’ , e^ h {er' i shoulder in the corner 1 r >a fl,i, B eli But if you put the brake on u>® and sit hack on the beeehing . ; put the stockwhip on you an *.« p: on pretty heavily.” The P rOS polMr. Lvsnar's secession from a-- t 5 ! tical flock did not appear mioo distress the Minister, who saj I turbably through the stonewall «* on the Bill, which one memo®. & own party aptly described as i wanted.”