HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Wellington, Yesterday. The House met at 2.30. Mr Stout made a statement as to the measures proposed to be dealt with this session. Government did not propose to proceed with the Municipal Corporations Bill, Friendly Societies Bill, ortheßepre» sentation Bill. The Magistrates Courts Bill and the Criminal Code Bill were simply consolidation measures, and he would ask the House to deal with them. The Government considered they would be able to proceed with the other bills on the Order Paper this session.
Major Atkinson Baid he desired to iiw form the Government that he intended proposing a series of resolutions traversing the financial proposals of the Government in the direction oflimiting the expenditure on the Public Works fund ; also traversing the subject of the East and West Coast Railway new loan and other matters. He would ask that the Government should set aside thefollowing evening for dealing with the resolutions ; if not, he should have to content himself with moving them on the motion to go into Committee of Supply.— Mr Stout said he should like to see the resolutions before giving a definite reply. If the resolutions were in the direction stated by the hon. member, he should ask the House to adjourn till they were brought down.—Major Atkinson said he should put the resolutions on (be paper that afternoon. He bad hoped
that after what the Government had already accepted they would be prepared to accept the resolutions he intended proposing, which Were very reasonable ones.— Mr Stout then moved the adjournment of the House.—Several members objected to the adjournment, on the ground of the iatenees of the session.—Mr Macandrew said that after the intimation of the reso* lutions about to be proposed by the mem* ber for Egmont, no other course was open to the Government but adjourn the House. —Mr Stout congratulated the Opposition on having at length found a leader. He thought it was only reasonable to ask for an adjournment till to-morrow night. No doubt the leader of the Opposition required time to consult bis supporters, and to get sufficient votes for this motion ; he would therefore ask that the House should adjourn till to morrow evening at halfpast 7. The motion was agreed to, and the House rose at 3.30 p.m.
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Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5183, 27 August 1885, Page 2
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