NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9045, 11 March 1908, Page 5

NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS.

A CENSURE MOTION,

Received March 10, 10 a.m. SYDNEY, March 10. Parliament opens tc-day. It is understood the Opposition will move a motion censuring the Government over the removal of Mr Keele from the Presidency of the Water Sewerage Board. Received March 11, 1.7 a.m. SYDNEY, March 10.

Id the Assembly, Mr McGnwen moved an amendment to the Address-in-Rep!y censuring the Government for its action in connection with the recent harbour trust appointments. These appointments included the transference of Mr Keele from the Presidency of the Water Sewerage Board *o the Harbour Trust.

The motion was really aimed at this appointment, which has caused a lot of political feeling and wrangling. Mr Wade (Premier), in replying, vigorously defended the Government's action.

The object of this session is to face the position which will be created by the expiration of the term for which the Arbitration Court was established. "In my opinion." said Mr Wade, the Premier, in the course of an interview recently, "it is not desirable to cut things too closely, and to be faced with the situation of the present Act expiring before the new one is ii: working operation. So I have decided to ,meet a little earlier than we intended, nave a short session to deal with this question, and resume for the main work of the year later on." The nresent Arbitration Act will expire on June 10th, and in its new legislation the Government will probably propose that the Court should be replaced by wages boards, following in some degree at least the lines of the system in Victoria. Though the primary object of the early meeting of Parliament is to consider the Arbitration Act, it is likely also, according to the Premier, that members will be asked to discuss the situation caused by the action of those lessees whose improvement leases it is sought to cancel. They have instituted a suit in the Equity Court, which is certain to be a protracted one, and pending the hearing of the suit have obtained an injunction, to restrain the Crown from throwing, the land open for settlement. These proceedings will naturally delay considerably the closer settlement policy of the Government, to far at least as it relates to the vast areas locked up in these leases, and it will be interesting to see what action the Government will take in the matter.

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