ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 28 August 1913, Page 5

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.

IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. (By Telegraph.—Frets Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. ■ ' ; In reply to questions in the House of Representatives this afternoon, the Minister said that the* Government has for some time past been advising the proprietors of butter factories to ipasteurise all akim milk before returning it to the suppliers, but does not consider the present time opportune for making this reform compulsory. That out ef the total niteber of teachers (3212) who receive graded salaries, 2434 teachers will, if Parliament passes the short; Bill to be introduced presently, receive the double increment from January Ist next. A measure giving a general increase of salaries requires careful consideration, but such a measure will be introduced next session. That it was not intended to amend the Defence Act so that public .halls erected without Government assistance by the residents of a town,,,and which liave been used on one or two j nights a week as drill' halls, shall, j when taken over by the Defence Department under the Act, be paid for and the proceeds utilised for the erection of another public hall. That no bungling had occurred in connection with the supply of uniforms to the Territorials, as alleged . by the member for Grey Lynn. That no disci-initiation whatever is shown against Roman Catholic school children in so far as conveyance by rail is conceimed. The regulations lay down the conditions tinder which free soliool tickets are issued," and any one can obtain such tickets on complying strictly with the provisions of the regulations. That no hindrance is placed by the Department in the way of High or Technical Schools teaching wireless telegraphy, provided that outside "aerials" are not erected. In some cases such schools have applied for permission to carry out-instruction' in wireless telegraphy, and it has ;been granted, subject to the installation of such apparatus indoors as will not interfere with publio correspondence between coast stations.'