POLITICAL NEWS AND NOTES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 104, 10 August 1910, Page 5

POLITICAL NEWS AND NOTES

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent). Wellington, Last Night. The debate has still farther revived to-day, much of the new lire being due to the fuel supplied by the Native Minister. FANNING A, BLAZE. Mr. Lang, who fanned the blaze i"i his intensely earnest fashion, is not fluent to any extent, but is businesslike in a fiery fashion. He pointed to the blaze which lie declared was burning uj) the replies of .Mi'- Carroll. Unpaid naiive rates was the 'bulk of the fuel and the flame was blown up through bellows in the form of statistics supplied by various county councils. MORE BELLOW'S. Mr. Massey gave notice of motion by way of additional bellows supplying the wind power, by declaring the motion identical with one of Mr. Carroll's years ago. The other side replied with morel blowing from bellows fashioned differ-j ently, and so the debate blazes on. It will not finish to-night, perhaps to.-mor-row. Taihoa! DR. FINDLAYS SPEECH. In the Council, the whole time Ivas occupied by a great speech from Dr. Findiay in moving the second reading of the Crimes Amendment Bill, the corner stone of prison reforms For nearly two hours he spoke, inspiring great interest, and piling up facts and figures, and quotations, arranging them in fine order with lucid intervals of argumenta- | tive descriptions. It was a magnificient effort and the refreshment of it was the i absence of 'everything of a party character.

NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. Massey is to move: "That Mr. W. Fraser be appointed Chairman 01 Committees of this House." Mr. Massey to move:"Thatin the opinion of this House (1) It is desirable that as speedily as practicable all unnecessary distinctions between the inhabitants of this Dominion should be abolished as far as it can ibe effected by the mode of our legislation and our system of administration . (2) That our Statutes State records and public documents should be so framed to tend to obliterate rather than to maintain distinctions between the. two races. (3) That it is expedient to efl'ect complete equality wherever possible in the position of the inhabitants of the Dominion, so tnat the same laws as to property and the rights and privileges of citizenship should apply to all alike and (4) That it is desirable to appoint a select committee of members of this House with power to confer with any similar committee appointed by the Legislative Council to consider and suggest means by which equalization may 6e expedited and whatever tends needlessly to show and perpetuate distinctions may be abolished, till every reference to one race or another may be rendered unnecessary, all being treated and referred to alike as the people of New Zealand." Mr. Dive is to move:"That there is ■laid before this House a return in continuation of B 18, C 190G, showing all lonns, where raised, terms of each loan, costs and expenses of raising loans for the financial vears ciuVA 31st March, 1907, 1908, 190!) and 1910 respectively.

SHOPS AND OFFICES AMEND- • MENT BILL. Under "The Shops and Offices Amendment Bill," which was circulated tonight, "Hotel" means any premises, whether licensed under the Licensing Act, 1908, or not, in which meals are provided or sold to the general public for consumptidn on the premises, and lodging is provided for hire for the accommodation of persons who desire to lodge therein..

"Restaurant" is to be deemed to me<Ti any premises in which meals are provided as aforesaid, but in which lodging is not provided for the accommodation of persons, other than the occupier and his family and assistants, and includes a tea room and an oyster saloon. The definitions of "shop" and "shop assistants" are to 'be intended to apply to hotels and restaurants and to the assistants. Those sections in the pricipal Act limiting the hours of employment of shop assistants, shall not apply to hotels and restaurants. An assistant shall not be employed in or about an hotel or restaurant or its business—(a) for more than CO hours, excluding meal times, in any one week, in the case of a male whose exceeds 10 years, nor more than afi hours (excluding meal times) in any one week in any other case, nor (b) for more than ten hours (excluding meal times) in any one day, nor (c) for more than 5 hours continuously without an interval of at least half an hour for a meal, nor (d) at any time after 2 o'clock in the afternoon of such working day in each week as the occupier in the case of each assistant thinks fit. Such working hours may, with the previous written consent of an inspector, be extended, but not for more than three hours ,-in any one day, not for more than 90 hours in any one year. Overtime im such cases shall be at the rate of half as much again as the ordinary rate of wages or the sum of 9d per hour, wliich-ever is the greater. The clauses in the principal Act urovldi „1 » 1 11 _1 . _ r . .

| tory closing day for the appointment of a statutory closing day in separate districts, and in combined districts for * , poll of electors to determine the sta- | tutory closing day, and for special holidays, shall not apply to hotels or restaurants. Every shop assistant who is employed as a night porter or nightwatchman in any hotel or restaurant in lieu of the weekly half holiday shall have in each period of fourteen days a whole holiday of twenty-four hours, commencing at his usual time for commencing work, on such working day as the occupier in the case of each auch shop assistant thinks fit. In lieu of | allowing a) half holiday or a whole holiday as aforesaid it shall be lawful for the occupier of an hotel or restaurant to allow to any assistant who so desires, leave of absence on full pay at the ordinal— rate for a period of seven days (inelu-'ing Sunday) in every three months. Notice of writing of any such arrangements, stating the name of the assistant and the date from which the arrangement is intended to have effect, hall .be given by the occupier to an inspector at least twenty-lour hours before the arrangement comes into force. Any such arrangement may be terminiated by the occupier at any time or by the assistant on giving to*the occupier seven days' notice of his desire to terminate the same. Pro-vision is made for Mie keeping of a wages and overtime book.