PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1922, Page 5

PARLIAMENT.

YESTERDAY’S BUSINESS. SHOPS AND OFFICES BILL. SOME IMPORTANT CHANGES By Telegraph.—-Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Legislative Council met at 230 p.m. Th« Imprest Supply Bill (No. 4) was put through all stages and passed. The Shops and Offices Bill, was committed. A clause providing for the sale of perishable goods by auction, on the statutory closing day was amended to provide that an occupier sWI obtain a permit from an inspector, instead of notifying an. inspector withilt 48 houn. Clause 36 was amended to provide that a hawker be deemed to keep afshop open whenever and wherever for tile time being he is selling, or offering, goods for sale by retail of delivering such goods. The clause covering the hours of hotel and restaurant assistants was altered to provide that an assistant shall not be employed for more than ten instead of nine hours in one day. The clause struck out by the House relating to the employment of assistants in shops at an exhibition or a show was re-instated. The Bill as amended was passed. The Loan Companies Bill was committed, when a new clause was added to provide that part two of the Mortgages and Deposits Extension Act, 1921, is not to apply to mortgage companies and building societies if the director? so resolve. Two further clauses were added to ensure that should a company or society contract itself out in this way the depositors shall receive 5J per cent, from the commencement of the principal Act until one month after the laat publication of the necessary notice of the directors’ intentions. The BW was reported with amendments. The Country Telephone Lines Amendment Bill and the Factories Bill were put through their final stages and passed. The Council rose at 4.5 p.m.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

REPLIES TO QUESTIONS. The House of Representatives met tfc 2.30 p.m. Replying to Mr. D. G. Sullivan (Avon), the Hon. G. J. Anderson said the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Bill must pass this session, and if he undertook to permit all and sundry to come before the committee and give evidence there would not be the remotest chance of the Bill passing. Replying to Mr. J. R. Hamilton (Awarua), the Hon. J. G. Coates said so long as it was necessary to observe economy it would be the policy of the Post and Telegraph Department to retire officers with forty years’ service. Replying to Mr. T. M. Witford (Leader of the Opposition), the Hon. D. H. Guthrie said he would procure full particulars of the proposed English Railway Boards, which had been the subject of a recent cable. At the tame time he thought our Arbitration Court would meet our industrial necessities, as he believed it liad always done substantial justice to all parties to disputes. The amendments rtade by the Legislative Council in the Life Insurance Amendment Bill and in the Insuiance Companies Deposits Bill were agreed to. The remainder of the sitting was devoted to the debate on the economy proposals.