PARLIAMENT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10065, 12 August 1910, Page 5

PARLIAMENT.

LEGISLATIVk COUNCILS

By Telegraph—Preps Association- \ WELLINGTON, August 11. In the Legislative Council .in.,the. afternoon the adjourned debate on the Destitute |Persons Bill was resumed bj! the Hon. 0. Samuel, who has net conclu :ed his speech when the Council rose at its previous sittine, dealing at*lesgth£with the propiaed procedure in the receipt of affiliation orders. There was no reason why the legislature should run the ri&k of inflicting a gross wrong to allow the order to he made in respect of unburn children. It would be a fearful engine of blackmail, and "it would depart as snggestedgfrom the wholesome prin-

ctpal of caßtingj;the onus of proDf in all similar cas.es accuser. The' Hon. J R. Sinclair-supported , the Bill, and the debate was . adjourned and the Council ruse. HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES. The House met at 2.30 p.ir. Replying to Mr R.- A. Wright, Wellington South, who asked if report was correct that Captain Sed- > don had been appointed to the position of adjutant and quartei-masfcer general£of the New Zealand forces in place of Colonel Davis, Sh* Joseph Ward said that 'no farther appointments had been made in connection with the defence forces than those announced in the House re- , cently. As soon as the commandant, i of forces was appointed the other positions would be filled' on his arrival in the Dominions.

Considerable discussion arose on .the motion to add names of Messrs Nosworthy and T. E. Taylor to the Labour Bills Committee.

Mr H. Poland, Ohinemuri, speaking on the report of the Silting: Commission, referred the suggestion that the expense of remedial worfe should be borne by the Gold Doty. He considered it only reasonable that proportion of the cost Bhould bo levied on the Gold Duty.

Mr Taylor, Thames, hoped that whatever was dqne to remedy tha trouble should be done quickly. Mr Greenslade,Waikato, said he knew/ of settles who had been practically ruined by the silting caused by tailings deposited*in the river.

On the motion by Hon.* R. McKenize, to lay the inspector of Coal Mines' report on the table considerable discussion arose as to 1 the necessity for the State Coal business being extended toother parts of tnjj ; Dominion. J Several other members spoke, and the House rose at 10.40 p.m.