HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3013, 11 October 1878, Page 1

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

AFTERNOON SITTING. LAW AMENDMENT BILL.

This bill was read a first time, and tine second reading fixed for tomorrow. DISQUALIFICATION BILL H*. 2. TUis bill was read a third time and passed.^ . NATIVE LAW SUITS BILL. On the motion to go into Committee on the Native Law.. Suits Bill, Mr Whitaker said negotiations, were proceeding which would probably result in an,agreement being come to on this bill between all parties in the House, and he therefore sng* - gested that its committal be postponed. The Hon. E Stout acquiesced, and the committal was postponed till to-morrow. BILLS IN COHMITXKI. ■(;* The House then went into Committee ■," on the following bills :—Repeals Bill, Friendly Societies' Act Amendment, Public Reserves, Sale of Dangerous Goods Act Amendment, Otago and Souths land Education Reserves Leasing. (Mr Hamlio, in consequence ,of the illness of Mr O'Rorke, was in the chair.) *■ bepeals'bill; • This was amended ,by the insertion in schedule of Acts and parts of Acts intended to be repealed of tbe Shipping and Seamen's Act, 1577, not yet assented to by Her Majesty. .' *. FBIENDLY SOCIETIES ACT AMENDMENT. The Hoir. R. Stout said some societies were in the habit of taking the expense of banquets, &c, as a loan out of the sick ■ fund, which was never repaid. It was therefore necessary to keep the expenses of management and sick and benefit fundi separate. He believed if it were not for the number of honorary members manj«^ societies would become insolvent.

The following new clause was read a. second time on the motion of Mr Stoat: —",No rule or amendment of a rule of * the society or branch shall be disentitled to registry, by reason of its. expression- or implying any subordination to the central body of the same order outside new Zealand, or by reason of its containing any reference to one, or more of. the. general laws of the said order, provided that such general laws shall be or. have been forwarded to the registrar for such general laws for any of the matters specified in schedule two qf the said Act. The society shall be deemed to have sufficiently complied with sub-section 12 of the said Act, if reference be made in the rules of the society to the general law or laws making such provision; provided that nothing herein contained shall hare the effect of giving force to any general law that is contrary to the express provision of this or the said Act."

DANGEBOUS GOODS ACT. ' In this Act clause eight was struck out, .and. the following inserted: —For the purpose of ascertaining and testing whether any oil is petroleum within the meaning of the said Act and this Act, any in* spector of weights and measures, or any person authorised by the local authority^ as in last foregoing section mentioned, and any officer of. police, is hereby authorised to enter upon any premises or upon any description of vessel at any reasonable hour in the daytime, in which any kind of inflammable oil is Kept, either in bulk or in detailed quantities, and may procure samples thereof, either by proouring or by requiring vendor thereof or person in charge of aforesaid premises or Teasel, to show him and allow him to inspect all or any of the receptacles in which any inflammable oil in possession of vendor is stored, and placed in storage thereof, and pive him samples of such oil on payment or tender of value of such, samples. Clause 9is amended by. the insertion.of "or.vessel" after "premises" iti line two* "and the substitution of " receptacles " for '" vessel" in line five, and of " inflammable oil" for " petroleum "in the same line.

PUBLIC RESEBVES SALE BILL. ' In committee on the Public' Beservet. Sale Bill, which provides for the sale of railway reserves in Canterbury, Otago» and Westporfc. - ' ■' , , The Hon. R. Stout said the Gorern-

ment recognised the importance of reserving part of the purchase money for roads, and a clause would be inserted with that object. ■[ The discussion was > interrupted by dinner hour.