PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7927, 16 September 1905, Page 2

PARLIAMENT.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. The Council met at 2.30 p.m. The Shops and Offices Dill was read n secpml time. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House met at 2.110 p.m. After the Public Works Statement had been laid on tho<taMc, the House went into Committee of Supply for further consideration of tiro Estimates. The vntp for thu State Forestry Department) *a« under 'discussion, until the dinner adjournment. ' EVENING SITTING. Tlie House resumed at T.OO. The estimates were under discussion the whole evening. Votes for the State Forest Department, Government Printing Office, M«W Hospitals and Charitable Department were passed unaltered. The Defence Department estimates gave rise to «. lengthy discussion; Mr Seddon, dealing with harbour defences, said that in view of the hmg range of guns they'had to improve the existing armaments, which would be done at Auckland ami Wellington. The Commandant objected Ito ilw slow progress of the work, awl in this connection the Government proposed to ask the House for I nn increased Totn to enable tho-work to bo carried out' expeditiously. Ho intimated tlmt'iTVaa proposal to continue Iho term of office of MajorGeneral Biilyington as Commandant of the Forces, which will expire next, veal.