PARLIAMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 December 1918, Page 5

PARLIAMENT.

j HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WELLINGTON, this day The" House, after discussing the “Washing Up” Bill for over five ! hours, agreed to its provisions uu- | amended, except that Mr. Sidey seeurI ed for the Otago Progress League limii lar privileges as granted to the Canterbury Progress League, by Clause 64. Considerable opposition was raised j to Clause 46, increasing the borrowing j powers of the Wanganui Harbour ! Board by £150,000, but after two divisions the Clause was Agreed to and the Bill was' read a third time and passed. Mr. Sidey brought up a report on j the Public Health Bill, recommending j it be allowed to proceed with amend"ments suggested. The Hon. G. W. Russell moved that the House go into committee on the Bill. Mr. Luke said the Bill was an ad- ) mission on the part of the Minister that the local authorities had not all the powers necessary to fight epidemics; they could only look after the streets and outside of the buildings, but'they could not go inside the homes. City ' Councils' ought to have full conI trol of the sanitation .and public health iof their cities. There should be no divided authority. Mr Ell said most of the powers taken in the Bill were already embodied in i the law of the land. V hat was valuable in the Bill was the power to keep the local authorities up to their duty. The Bill was put through the committee stage with slight amendments, read a third time and passed. The Auckland Harbour Board and Devonport Borough Council Empowering Bills were also put through all .. stages. j The House then went into committee jof supply to consider the supplcmenj tary estimates, which totalled £844,129; Unauthorised Expenditure £100,478 and; Sums Irrecoverable by the Crown required to be written off; Departmental Accounts £5660. These amounts were passed in half an hour with comparatively little discussion. At 6.15 the Appropriation Bill was introduced and put through th(f committee stage on being reported from the committee. At 6.25. the House rose till noon.