Parliament

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 140, 6 November 1914, Page 2

Parliament

the session mm. By Tedcjrrapli Per Press A*s(«-ml,!.'>n , Wellington. Nm-ci! ■'■ The Council met at i>.:Hi. Tin.- Appropriation Act wus received from the House, and passed through al

The' Council rose al. f1..°57, until il o'clock. On the Council at 11 r.Vhvi; valedictory speeches v-ere delivered, high tributes being pa-'d to the & eiiki i; chairman of committee:', and Mr Bell, Leader of the Council. The House resume;! at I'D o'clock. The Speaker announced that the Legislative Couneii ha- passed tlie Appropriation Bill. The Speaker and Qerk of Parliaments left for Government House to obtain his Excellency's signature to the measure. The House resumes on the ringing of the bell. OLOSINU- SCEx^fiS.

The House resumed at 10.50. the Sneaker announced that ue had 'presented the Appropriai.on J.ii lo the buveruor for the royal assent, wihich las Excellency had been phased to give lu tile jiaiiiu ol his -Majesty. 'lho Iv.a proviues tne iouo.ving appi'oprkuiuiia: Consolidated Fund \Vurivs i'und £j,-luj,Hf (, otuw av^uuiits ±l,-iou,loi. 'ilie Premier read :t report Iron, the Lauor Department, vvliieit he contended cstauiisned the fact that 'there was no victimisation by the Hu.utly Coal Company. mi Robertson contemkd that the report proved the opposite.

Thi; Prumicr - then delivered a vaied.ctory speech, in whifii iiu congratulate,] the Speaker and the Oiiairman 01 \_uiumittees upon the manner in which they had discharged their duties. He said that though the session was often stormy they had made history. lie spoke in kindly terms of the Opposition.. They were entering upon a political war, not a personal contest. There would probably be losses on both sides and ho hoped those victorious would take their success without undue elation arid those defeated accept defeat with proper cquinamity. Sir Joseph Ward spoke in felieitious terms of the work of the session and his fellow members.

The Speaker and Mr Malcolm returned thanks for the felicitations of the Premier and -the Leader of the Opposition.

The Premier announced that the amount paid into the defence fund, exclusive of funds in the "Hands of local committees and gifts in kind, was £130,000, which.he thought highly gratifying. 'The Premier moved that the House at rising adjourn till Tuesday next. On the- mo&'on that the House adjourn a division was taken, the motion being lost by 25 to 17. The House adjourned at 11.31) and the third session of the eighteenth Parliament came to an end. One. hundred and one Bills receivedthe royal assent, 47 were dropped, and two private Bills were passed. The House sat 78.days, the average sittinc being fi hours 31' minutes, the lowest for many years.