PARLIAMENTARY.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43116, 20 July 1907, Page 4

PARLIAMENTARY.

Mr Elll wants a referendum, vote of the electors on the question of the abolition of the totailisator, on condition that such referendum vote is petitioned for by 30,000 of the electors.

!Mlr Lewis will ask the- Government whether they will consider the propriety of taking steps to create railway employees, school teachers, and public servants generally into a separate constituency, so that 'members of the House may be able to consider questions concerning public servants from, an independent, rather than, from a partisa, standpoint. The desirableness of establishing a system of mediaai inspection of 1 schools has been urged on the Minister for Education .by Mi* Ha-nan. The Minister replies that however desirable an adequate system' of inspection would be he is obliged to say that every general proposal with regard tio it that has, so. far, been brought under his notice involves am expenditure that- he does not see his way at present to incur. When amending the Shops and Offices Act, the Minister for Labour has informed Mr Fisher, the Government will consider the question of preventing Chinese selling tobacco, etc., on days when the European tobacconists are compulsorily closed.

The Premier states that the Government is considering the question of increasing the subsidies to town districts.

Volunteers will be interested to hear on the authority of the Minister for Defence, that instructions have been issued that Cabinet has directed that in future no parades on Sunday shall count- for capitation nor for payment of any kind, unless the Sunday should intervene while volunteers are in camp.