Mr. Speaker

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 713, 12 July 1929, Page 1

Mr. Speaker

Session Queries and Asides (THE SUE’S Parliamentary Reporter) WELLING TON, Today. Parliament was more' or less pleasantly surprised this afternoon when the chairman of committees, Mr. S. G. Smith, on behalf of the Hon, Sir Charles Statham, chairman of the committee set up during the short session to consider amending the Standing Orders, brought forward the committee’s report and a draft of the revised orders. Shorter hours and a regular time for seeking repose appeal to members of the House, and Mr. H. E. Holland, leader of the Labour Party, voiced a request that the report be considered soon and the new orders brought In as early as possible. On the whole, the day was quiet. ,ith the Address-in-Heply debate ursuing the even tenor of its way. ’here is no sign of the Government dopting Labour's suggestion and curailing the oratory so that the business f the session may be pursued. • * • The debate on the Standing Orders ’ommittee report will be. taken by he House in Committee of Supply. The Minister of Labour, (tho Hon. V. A. Veitcli), asked leave to introduce he Scaffolding and Excavation Amendment Bill. * » * The Swamp Drainage Amendment qill was read a first time, and the econd reading was set down for July LB. * * • Mr. H. G. R. Mason (Auckland Sublrbs) asked leave to introduce the Deence Amendment Bill, and the Miniser of Defence, the Hon. T. M. Wil'ord, gave notice to introduce the meal Authorities Empowering (Aviaton Encouragement) Bill. “Unemployment,” said the Minister if Internal Affairs, the Hon. P. A. le la Perrelle, today, “is like a painful mil on the neck of a patient. It is in the surface, but the trouble is in he blood stream. The doctor examines the patient and A Voice: He’ll die. Mr. de la Perelle: No fear he won’t. The doctor has to go farther than the boil and examine the causes. A surgical operation may cure the boil, but it is not a guarantee against its recurrence. He then went on to discuss unemployment, and emphasised the value of land settlement as a cure. * <* * Gaining Heaven “Heaven is not gained in a single bow,” said the Hon. A. J. Stallworthy. Mr. H. E. Holland: But you got there in a single bound. (Loud laughter.) « • • Gaming Legislation Notice of his intention to introduce the Gaming Amendment Bill was given by Sir George Hunter (Waipawa) in the House of Representatives today. The measure this year will contain only two clauses, namely, proposals for the restoration of the right to telegraph totalisator investments to the secretary of a racing club and for the removal of the ban on the publication of dividends. * * • Danger to Girls Advertisements in the newspapers purporting to be from tradesmen who were respectable and desirous of meeting girls of from 17 to 20 year.s with a view to friendship, and no pest office addresses, were the subject of a question in the House this afternoon by Mr. R. MeKeen (Wellington South). He asked the Minister of Justice, the Hon. T. M. Wilford, if he would see to it that the source of the advertisements was investigated, and the motives of the men examined. He had reason to believe that there existed grave danger to the young womanhood of the country in such advertisements. * * * Late Trains k . “Our trains are growing later every day,” was the burden of the song of Mr. J. Linklater (Manawatu) when he asked the Minister of Railways, the Hon. W. B. Taverner, to inquire into the late running of trains between Auckland and Wellington. “Lateness is the rule rather than the exception,” he said. Rotorua’s Unemployed Speaking of the large amount of unemployment in Rotorua during the past few months, Mr. C. H. Clinkard (Rotorua) asked the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. E. A. Ransom, to speed up the examination of plans, etc., in connection with the granting of a subsidy on the Rotorua Borough’s expenditure of £250 on relief works. I The Minister replied that the work ! was being done as quickly as possible, but that certain conditions had to bo complied with.

An Early Start

Mr. D. Jones (Mid-Canterbury) gave notice to ask the Minister ot Public Works, the Hon. E. A. Ransom, if from 400 to 600 men were being employed on construction work on the Westland-Nelson line. Was it the policy of the Government to start its railway works before they were submitted to Parliament?