PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 249, 22 October 1901, Page 3

PARLIAMENT.

FSB PBCBS ASSOCIATION. HOUSE OP BEPRESINTATITES. Monday, Ootebar 21. The House met at 7.30 p.m. ' Mr. Morrison was granted leave of absence for the remainder of .the session on account of ill-health. Hon. J. G<rroll moved the second \ reading pro forma of the Maori Land , Administration Act 1900 Amendment i Bill, and that the Bill be referred!, forthwith to the Native Affairs Com | mittee from which he hoped it wou'd ( have a speedy return. The motion , was agreed to on the voiees. ' Hon. J. Carroll moved the second < reading of the Pariroa Native Re- ] serve Bill to vest a certun native 1 reserve in the Patea district in i the Public Trustees, and to empower ] the Native Innd Court to ascertain \ the beneficial owners thereof. After c short debate the second read- a in* was agreed to on the voices, tbe t BUI was passed through committee without amendment, but the third reading was postponed to enable tbe Deputy-Bpeaker to consider a point raised by Mr. G. W. Russell that the t Bill contained appropriation clauses 1 and should be introduced by Governor's message. Hon. Hall-Jones moved the first reading of the Inspection of Machinery 801, which is designed to meet the case of the issue of certificates to engineers on gold dredges. The second reading was agreed to on the voices, * the Bill passed through committee without material amendment, read a ' third time and passed. F In Committee on the Fisheries En- 8 conragement Bill that portion of Clause ' S which provided for a sliding scale of * i bonus after 1902 was struck out. The ] Bill was then put through its final •tegesio committee. On the Education Boards Election Bill new clauses were added dealing with the procedure with respect to elections, duties of returning officers, and elections on an extraordinary vacancy occurring. The Bill was read a third i time and passed. s Hon, Hall-Jones moved the second F reading of the Hospital and Charitable * Aid Board's Ejection Bill, which ( he said proposed that members v of such boards shall be elected by the 8 general body of burgesses. Recent 1 " members of such boards would hold office until the next election of local e bodies, and would then be elected at f the same time as members of those ' bodies. t Mr. Bollard pointed out that the t local bodies that at present elect mem- * - bers of hospital and charitable aid r boards did not all go out of office at the same time, consequently the elec- v tions did not all take place at the same l time. Was it intended that members I of those board*, elected under the proposed new scheme, should hold office for three years » Mr. Hemes said sufficient reason bad not been given for the proposed change. Under the present varying dates of elections ef local bodies it j woum* be almost impossible to carry t out tbe propositions of the Bill. t Mr Collins siid it was nat clear who ,> would be e'igible for election. He t wanted to see women eligible for elec- , tion. r Mr Hall- Jones: They come with the T BUI. ] Mr Thcs. Mackenzie end the pub- t would appreciate the measure, and he { thought representatives of the public ) should be elected to vis't «ur asylums. * Mr G. W. Rusfell said the whole s agi f ation in favour of the new system . Of election originated in Chr'stchurcb, { and almost exclusively from a section j of the community, who were disap- < pointed because the lccal t-odies de- ] clined to put one or two )adi«s on the , Hospital Board. It would be found that under the proposed system women would have less chance of being elected than at present. ;