PARLIAMENTARY.
HOUSE OF EEPEESENTATIVES. Wellington, Yesterday. Eeplying to Mr Ivess, Mr Eolleston said the Government had no statutory power to create commonage rights.
Replying to Mr Sheehan, Mr Bryce said the Government .would not.restore ex-Detective Farrell to the Police Force, nor would he give any prospect of Farrell being employed by the Government in any other department, as suggested in the report of the Public Petitions Committee.
In Committee on the Eoads and Bridges Construction Bill, on the motion of Mr De Lautour, Clause 7 was altered to read —That main roads may be declared by Minis ers at the request of any County made prior to the raontk of March. He argued that by that means they would bare an opportunity for discussing the
proposal at the approaching meeting of the Assembly.—Agreed to. In Committee on Roads and Bridges Bill, on clause 60, relative to the outlay of 20 percent, revenue on the opening up of waste lacJfl, a lengthened discussion ensued on a motion by Mr Turnbulli that the money derived for the sale of lands in a provincial district be expended within that district alone.—-Mr Montgomery and Mr Macandrew supported the amendment, arguing that it was the duty of Government to give every facility for i opening up a particular district towards ! which the flow of population was direct- j ing itself, and that they should be j gradually allowed to radiate from these { places to the more remote centres. : Messrs Levestarn and Connolly opposed j the amendment, contending that the land revenue was colonial revenue, and <hat it was necessary for the good of the colony as a whole that the land should be opened, up, and that the proceeds of land sales should be disbursed for that purpose, independent altogether of the locality in | which it may have been raised. [ Sir John Hall characterised the principle of taking away the revenue from one district and spending it on another as most improper. He cordially supported the amendment." Capt. McKenzie pointed out that it was quite easy to spend the land revenue within the provincial district, and yet at such a distance from the district in which it was raised as to make it practically useless for the benefit of the particular district which contributed the money. He believed in the principle, but wished to knowhow they would define the dis« tricts in Which the revenue was raised. Oa the motion being put that the clause stand pavt of the. Bill a division was called : ayes 35, noes 33. Mr Turnbull's motion being lost, the remainder of the bill passed and was reported with amendments. This day. After the usual adjournment the House went into Committee on the Crown and Native Lands Eating Bill, on clause 2. Major Te Wtieorb moved to limit the rate on native land to land which had passed through the Native Lands Court. All the Native members supported this, but after a long discussion it was lost on , a division of 46 to 21. ; " A further proposal to ; strike out the words " all native lands "was .lost by 37 to 14. The clause was amended so as to render, all Crown lands within five miles of a road or bridle track-liable to rates, and exempting native lands more than five miles away from a coach road or highway. A long discussion ensued on clause 4 After L3O a.m., the remaining clauses of the Bill were passed without alteration, and the bill was reported as amended. The House rose at 2.40 till to-day.
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4269, 6 September 1882, Page 2
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591PARLIAMENTARY. Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4269, 6 September 1882, Page 2
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