HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4268, 5 September 1882, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Wellington, Yesterday. In Committee the Eoad Boards Bill was further consdered and progress made as far as clause 109; the alterations made being purely technical. A new clause was added to the effect that all notices requiring to be advertised in the Gazette be inserted free of charge to the Boards. —A long discussion took place on a motion by Mr Swanson that a new clause be added empowering Eoad Boards to prevent any roads less than a chain wide being carried out. —The motion was agreed to. —The bill was then passed through Committee, and the House adjourned at 10.30. This day. After the usual adjournment the House went into Committee on the Counties Act Amendmentßill. In clause Banamendment proposed by Mr Pyke to have a poll taken instead of a petition signed for the division of Counties was lost by 45 to 17. The number required to sign a petition was, on Mr Seddon's motion, altered from four-fifths to three-fifths on a division of 30 to 23. A motion by Mr Whyte to make it three-fourths was lost by 34 to 23, and the clause as amended was passed by 48 to 3. Progress was reported and leave obtained to sit again. The Eoad Boards Bill was read a third time and passed. The House rose at 1.20 until 11 to-day.