PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7867, 8 July 1905, Page 2

PARLIAMENT.

TODAY, JULY 7, 1905. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. The Council met .at 2.i(0 p.m. The debate on the Address-in-Re-l>ly was advanced another stage. HOUSE OF UEPUESENTATIVES. The House mot a t 2.;)0 p.m. The Hoad Hoards Acts Amendment IHII passrll through committee without amoiKiiuont. The Counties Act Amendment Bill «a» partly considered in committee, a good deal of opposition shown to it by country members.

EVENING SITTING. The House resumed at >7.:K> p.m. Mr Scddon moved the second reading of the Old Age IWioris Act Amendment ISjII, wn |ch increases 11m annua* pension I'rotn'ilH to £-><>.■ II i> said the liital'vcial position of the colony warranted the increased expenditure under tho Bill, which would amount to about. £IOO,OOO a year. Dealing with tho question of/miiversal pensions, Mr Seddon asked whether the Colony was prepared to pnj an additional half a. million taxation to provide a pension for evcrv.onu over H 5 years of age who lias been ;25 years resident in tho Fql*tfAir- Massey regarded (he Bill as a wholesale electioneering bribe. Thing* would ,ilot he always So prosperous us now, and he WU H afraid tho proposed .increase migjat result in tho breaking down of the whole system. The debute was proceeding at uillnight.