Proposed Legislation.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 243, 12 November 1903, Page 2

Proposed Legislation.

STATEMENT BY THE PREMIER. In the House yesterday afternoon, Mr SEDDON announced that tt» following Government Bills would not be proceeded with this session:— Shops and Offices, Lite Aasitranc* Policies. Fertilisers, Local Government Franchise, Indictable Offeacea. Summary Jurisdiction, Public Domains, Crown Tenants Rent Rebate, Maori Land Laws An cudment (No. 2), Property Law, Friendly Societies Amendment Law Ameadnient, Tenants Rights, Gaming and Lotteries Act Amendment, Land Agents, Coroners, Harbour Boards, Teacbers' Superannuation, Medical Prao tioners -Registration, and Defence Act Amendment. All the private members' Bills on the Order Paper (with the exception of Mr Ell's School Committer's Election Bill and Mr Field's Imprisonment for Debt Limitation Amendment Bill, which had been adopted by tho Government and would be proceeded with) wouM also be dropped. The following Government Bills would be gone on with :—Patriotic Funds, Licensing Acts Amendment, Counties Act Amendment, Admiral- [ ty House Act Repeal, Government Valuation of Land, Orchard • and Garden Pests, Juvenile Smoking Suppression, Coal Mines 'Act Amendment. Waihi Hospital Board, Mining Act Amendment, Public Works Amendment, Maori Councils Amendment, Maori Land Laws Amendment. Secondary Schools, Regulation of Local Elections, Land for Settlements Act Amendment, Electoral Act Amendment (No. 3), Agricultural and Pastoral Soclsties Amendment, Law Practioners, Kauri Gum Industry, Government Railways Superannuation Fund Contributions, and Impounding Act Amendment. In discussing the business it had been decided to go on with Mr Serfdon said the contentious clauses in the Maori Land Laws Bill had been eliminated or amended. It wouMh* impossible to get a consolidating Land um through this session., «d the Land Bill remaining on the Order Paper would deal only with technical matters. An opportunity would lie given to place most of the local Bills on the Statute Book The Banking Bill would probably be brought down in a day or two. It would simply provide for « r«w newal of the guarantee, for a limited partnership between the bank and the State, which had existed of late. The Bill would not propose any material change in existing conditions, and ho believed the details would bo found so satisfactory that this Bill would go through without any difficulty.

In reply to Mr Massey, Mr SEDnON said the Bill would not lx' dealt with as a matter of urKt'iicy. Thcro was no necessity -lor that. Mr Seddon went on to say that the preferential tariff proposal* would be brought down, as ho Waa bound to give the House an opportunity of deciding- whether the colonly should grant a preferential tariff to the Mother Country. The a j. tcred political conditions at Home in no way affected this colony, and he wished to show the Mother.Country that the colony desired to help her. They would follow on the lines of Canada.