PARLIAMENTARY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10463, 30 October 1911, Page 5

PARLIAMENTARY

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

By Telegraph —Prest Auodation.

WELLINGTON, Last Night. Yin the Legislative Council on Saturday afternoon,, the amendment made in the House by Governor's message to the Post and Telegraph Bill was agreed to.

The Attorney-General gave reasons why the Council's amendment ic the Workers' Compensation Bill be insisted oh.

The Coal Mines Amendment Bill and Taieri Land Drainage Bill were tvceived from the House and read a first time.

A PROTEST,

The Hon. Mr Sinclair enteral an emphatic protest against Bills le entered during the dying hours of the session. He regarded it as a traversity on legislation that Bills such as these should be sent down on the last day of the session. Opportunity, he contended, should be given to make a full en- « quiry into the conditions surrounding any measure which came before tlhe Council.

The Hon. W. C. Carncross also objected to measures such as these being brought down from the House on the last day of the session. The bringing of Bills down, as was done, was a deliberate attempt to force measures through when & number of. measures had gone away, and it was concluded that the balance of the members would force .the measures through in their anxiety, to get home. -' v

The Hons., Barr, , Jenkinson, and £fomtfel^&]so.entered } KILLED. '

" Oh 'divfeion,-the Seoond ieacting" of \ mphatic protest against Bills being efi- ' 11 votes to 6, the voting being : ! Ayes: Sir John Findlay, Hons. Baillie, Rigg. Paul j Beehan and Baldey. Noes: Hons. Barr, Jenkinson, Gilmer, , Carncrocs, Collins, Loughnan, v Anstey, Thompson, McGowan, Samuel, and Sinclair. ' i

CONFERENCES.

/ The Council then adjourned until 7 o'clock, to enable further conferences to take place on the amendments made by the Council in the Native Land Claims Adjustment. Bill, and Workers' Compensation Bill.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

The House resumed at 2 o'clock; and agreed to the report of the conferences between the Council and the House on the .subject of the Council's amendment in the Workers' Compensation for Accidents Amendment Bill, and the Native Lands Claims Adjustment Bill. •

THE MINING BILL. <

A Governor's message was received, striking out a clause in the Mining Amendment Bill referring to .000rtracts. This wias done on account of the: clause being in conflict with the Workers' Liens Act. The amendment was carried.