PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 253, 26 October 1901, Page 2

PARLIAMENT.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION,

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, Friday, 25th October.

The Couoci! met at 2.30 p.m. Hon, J. M. Tvvomoy continued the adjourned deba'o on 1h« motion to commit the Industrial Conciliation md Arbitration Ull, and iuid he woul t uiovt) iu commit oj new clauses that the chairman cf evory Conciliation Board should be a Stipendiary Magistrate; that special conciliators need not necessarily be experts in the trade concerned, and that such special conciliators shall frit in places most convenient to the parties lo the dispute. Hon. D. Pinkerton r<itber approved of the Bill.

Hons. W. M. Bolt, 0. C. Bowen, G. Jones, H. Gourley, and spoke.

The Minister for Education attacked the Wellington Pr?s<i for holding the Wellington Conciliation Board up to ridicule. He opposed the clauses of the Bill that gave the right to either party to set up special conciliators or to go direct to the Court. Hon. W. (J. Walker gave notice to introduce the Maori Councils Act Amendment Bill.

The Council rose at 5 p.m. till 8 p.m

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

Friday, 25th October.

The House met at 2.30 p.m. Mr. Ell gave notice (So ask the Post-moster-GeDeral whether it is ti'ue, as reported, that the Government intends to give the public special facilities through the telegraph office for the investment of money on the totalisator. In reply to a qutstion by Mr, Pirani, Mr. Seddcm said the present law governing admission to the civil service was absolutely defective, and the Government intended to bring down amending legislation. It was res Jved tbafc the evidence taken by the Joint Stock Committee on the Land and Live Stock Auctions Bill be printed, and copies forwarded to farmers unions and agricultural associations throughout the colony. The Native Lind Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Bill was introduced by Governor's message, and read a first time. On ljon. J. Oarroll's mosion the Bill was read a second time pro forma and referred to the Native Affairs Oommittee. The Hon. J. Carroll moved that an order of the House for a certain return in connection with the Maori Lmds Administration Act, 1900, be rescinded as it would take two years to prepare. The motion was agreed to. With regard to the .petition praying tbat legislation may ba passed to suppress the us=> of .coupons in connection with the sale of tea in packets or packages, the Public Petitions Oommittee recommended tbat Government should umend the " Trading Stamps Abolition an) Discount Stamps Issue Act, 1900," po as to inc'ude the system of discounts, the committer being of opinion that no system of discounts, except that made in cash, is equitable or desirable in the in f erests of commercial morality. The following locil Bills passed through committee without amendment and were read a third time and passed:—Templeton Domain Board Empowering, Borough of Mornington Tramways, Dunedin Waterworks Extension, Lyttelton Borough . Council Empowering, City of Auckland Lohm Consolidation and Auckland Oicy Borrowing Acts Amendment, Kairanga Oounty, Hokitika Harbour Board Endowment Air. Amendment, Featliorston County, Wesleyan Chunh Reserve Vesting, Ocpan Bsach Public Domain Act Amendment, Borough of Ma'aura | Loan Validation, Greyfcown Reserves Vesting and Disposal EoaUin?, Oani terbury College Empowering Act , j Amendment, Kiwitea Oounty Council | Offices, Egmont Oounty, 6.ire Cemetery Reserve Vesting and Enabling, Mas- | § tei ton Public Park Management, and Inch Olutha Road River and Diainage. ' The Levels and Waimate Counties Boundaries Alteration Bill was under consideration in c mmittee when the House rose at 5.30 p.m.

' | Evening Sitting. J i The Hou?e resumed at 7.30 p.m. ( ' Mr Seddon moved the second readI ing of the Land Tax and Income Tax . Bill, which he said merely proposed the same tax as lust year. I Mr E>l urged that the land tax should be increased, that the exemptions should be swept away, and that exemptions under income tax should ,be reduced from £3OO to £2OO. the . money thus obtained to be devoted to t ledueino taxition on necessaries of life. | Mr K Tnopapson regretted Govern- ! ment had not yet seen its way to make a reduction in the mortgage tax. Mr G. W. Russell advooited a hnd ' tax that would re ch all the lands of J the colony. ! t Messrs Napier, McNab, Graham, , Hogg, Mas°ey, R. McKerzie and Bart cl.iy spoke. | After further deb.ite Mr Seddon re , plied. Ho said holders of leas's in ' perpetuity were taxable, but none had as yet gone abov<> the exemption, t He did nob think it wise to reduoe the , exemptions, while as to tbe mortgage , tax he repeated that he could not afford to decrease it, unless he got the revenue thus lost from another direc- ' tion. He contended that tbe land tax bore a fair proportion to the amouat of ■ taxation from other sources. The second reading was agreed to on the voices. Mr Seddon mo.ved the second reading of the iiOeal Bodies Liana Bill, which, he said, was practically a consolidating measure, and the amendments proposed simplified and improved the present Uw, Two important amendmeu's were that the first ye r's inter; st might be paid out of the loan, and that maintenance must cot be paid out of loans.