PARLIAMENTARY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10447, 12 October 1911, Page 5

PARLIAMENTARY

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. BEGINNING OP THE END. By Telegraph — Press Association. WELINGION, Last Night. On the motion of the Premier, it was resolved that on and after Monday next tie House meet on Mondays for Government business. Sir Joseph \vard promised to give a statement of the business proposed to he undertaken on Friday. The Public Works Statement would, he said, be delivered on Monday afternoon. Sir Joseph Ward said there \va« no reason why the session should not close on Friday week, if members would co-operate. PACIFIC CABLE.

The Premier moved that .the House approve of the proposal of the Bacifi'; Cable Board to lay a cable between, Now ZeaJand and Australia direct. JJe explained that the scheme was for a caole between Auckland, •and Sydney,<*the heAdquarteiV being removed in each case to the grap.li stations, with "the result'that re-transmissions at each end would be avoided, undertaking, it was estimated, would cost £175,000. A. direct cable must, he said, be provided if the present .business was to be increased, or even maintained. Thf: saving by a direct service would be £BO,OOO a year, in addition to expediting tne service. Sir Joseph Ward advocated the provision of a nationalised cable across the Atlantic, between England aaid. Canada. He had submitted this proposal at tli3 last Imperial Conference. He was persuaded that it would be incomparably .better to have an independent cable. The motion was carried on the voices. PUBLIC SERVANTS CLASSIFICATION. Referring to the Public Servants Classificaxion scheme, Sir Joseph Ward said it would merely be laid on the' table (for the information of members and others.' It had no force of law. Ic. had to be submitted to the Governor, and if approved by him puMisihed in the Gazette as, > provisional- elasMncation: *' Any servant net. satisfied might appeal to the . Board;,for of bis _ ajnd," 4|l- v niust ; ? be dealt wit^ brought into operation by-resolution • ot the /the-, scheme to come' into operation' this year. BILLS REPORTED. ; The Auckland .University College Amendment Bill, University of Otago Council, and Otago Hospitals • and Charitable Aid Board Bills, were reported with amendments. TRAMWAYS AMENDMENT BILL., The Tramway® Amendment 81l was next taken, in Commititee. -a. new clause was inserted in the motion Of the Minister, that when a locaL authority has. delegated the authority conferred upon it by an authorising order, the Minister may, on the issue of the renewal of a license, charge a fee of not exceeding ££ in respect of every cai'riage' licensed, the fee so charged to be paid by the Minister of Finance to the local authority to whom the authorising order wasi issued. ~

Pro vision was. also made in a further new, clause for ,the regstration and storage of-'lost articles, and the imposition of a reasonable charge to owners in respect of such registration •and storage. {Left sitting.)