PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 186, 17 August 1901, Page 2

PARLIAMENT.

PMB P ESS ASSOCIATION. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Fbidat, 16th August. The Council met at 2.30 Hon J. Rigg continued the debate on the in ition to commie the Shops and Offices Bl'. Hi supported the Bill, and depr.Cited a weak-kneed attitude and sid that provision for compulsory closii g of phops at 6 p.m. four days in <li« w-< k «as inserted by tha Labour bilk C mmitt e after receiving a number of c>m'uunicati"ns from trading &ii for itionti throughout Now Zeal-md, ai d was a we 1-meant attempt to meet their wi h s».

Hon. J. M. Twomey opposed the warehouse end bank clauses. Hon. H. Sc tla-id advised the Government i-o' to risk minor shocks by aclvai cicg meisures not sufficiently considered.

Hon. W. T. Jennings said that five years ago he advocated mu'.ua ity between employer and employee.

Hon. A, Pitt, paid ihst the Commit'ee while including small shops in (he Bill, was not willing to ratain the big corporations that, organised petitions. In tba Banks and warehouses clauses went., the whole Bill could go. The Minister for Education in reply said the only objection with which he had any sympathy wai that made by tu« Hon. D. Pinkerton, that bank e'erks should be manly enough to ask for what they required. Suih subservience, perhaps, df served little consideration, but in spite of this sub so vience, it was the duty of the St«te to extend protection to these people who were guided by a band which jjhould ba given to every child of tha ilpate. : The Bill was then committed, and after passage of the short title progress was reported. The Council rose at 4.55.

POUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. v Friday, August 16th. The Speaker took the chair at 10.30 a.m. ; The Juvenile Smoking Suppression Bill was read a first time. ; It wjs reported that the Private Bills Committee had amended the Presbyterian Church Bill by striking out the schedule containing tile articles of union of the churches.

The amendment was agreed to ani the Bill put through its finil stages. , Hon. J. Carroll moved the second reiding of the Charitable Gifts Bill to exempt charitable gift* from payment of stamp duty. Its introduction, he said, had been brought about by the foot that a considerable amount of duty would have to be piid on account of Cornwall Park, given by Dr. Logan Campbell, of Auckland, to the people of New Zealand. The Bill waa not, however, retrospective, but it was proposed to place en the Estimates a sum of money for the purpose of refunding the amount of duty which had been paid In respect of (hit donation. A short discussion folio ved, in the course of which eulogis'ic references were made to the public spirited generosity shown by Dr. Oimpbe 1, and the second reading was to on voice'.

The Hospital Nu r ses Registration Bill wa' committer]. A long discussion to' k place on the interpretation clause, and evon*ually the interpretation of the word " hospital" was extended to include such other hospitals where proprietors cons int to op?n them to inspection under f-e Hospitals Act, 1885, cs may be appr ved by rhe Go?trno-in-Counri!, Th« House rcse at, one o'clock. The House resumed at 2 30 p.m.