ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10706, 29 August 1912, Page 5

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

BY MINISTERS OF THE- CROWN.

(By Telegraph — Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Last Night,

Ministers, in answer to questions in tlie House of Representatives to-day said a Bill providing for the accommodation of flnxmill employees will bo introduced shortly, an amending Act is being prepared, in which further safeguards will be provided to prevent speculation in land dealt with under the Land Settlement Finance Act; the High Commissioner bad issued notice in July, suspending the export of cattle, gheep, and pigs to the Dominion from the United Kingdom until further notice; tho owners of the Kaiwaka estate, through which . the East Coast Trunk Railway will run. are being communicated with, with a view to purchase; it is not considered advisable to extend the functions of tho State Guaranteed Advances Office by empowering it to prepare transfers as well as mortages; the powers of court-martials will be definitely pot forth in the Defence Amendment Bill, now being prepared, tlie suggestion of sending a New Zealand Regimental Band to Britain in order to advertise the Dominion is worthy of consideration., but action might advantageously be postponed for some great Imperial event; the Government may have to take into consideration, the advisability of allowing private capital to construct branch railways where the Government, through shortness of funds, is tillable to do so; it is not proposed to alter the system of payment of Old Ago Pensions.