Parliamentary.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 46, 15 September 1900, Page 3

Parliamentary.

"Weighs gton, September 13. ; In the House on Thursday Mr Fowlds save notice to ask if the Government would £ive a bonus - of £10,000 to any company with, a paid-up capital of £60,000 which was prepared to manufacture kanri gum into marketable varnish. I Replying to a question in the House, the Hon. J. (x. Ward said that instructions had been given to Sir E. Poynter, R.A., to pre- \ pare a design for a new universal penny postage stamp, the coudition being that it should be emblematical of New Zealand being the first country to adopt universal penny postage, disusing ; the benefit of that system ' throughout the world. The absence of the Queen's head on the, stamp would not, he thought, be construed as want of loyalty on the p'^rt of the colony. R^ptyingto questions, Ministers said that representations would : be made to the Board of Trade with regard to the propriety of introducing into the examination of masters and mates an examin- ; ation in first aid tothe injured That the Government did not intend to discontinue the issue of leases for coal raining with a view to future use by the State; the policy of the Government with regard to such leases was that in cases where the lessees did not work the mines to the best ■ advantage of the communiiy, the 1 State would determine the tease. With regard to fires that ato alleged to have been caused by sparks from railway engines, the Hon, J. G. Ward -said that the Railway Department had the bestpossible appliances lor preventing sparks from engines. The Department could not be loaded with the responsibility of fires alleged to have been caused by locomotives, and if it wore desired that the Government should take such a responsibility, the Cousolidated Fund should bear tfhe cost. That a Bill was in preparation to regulate the weight of sacks of wheat. That a Bill to amend the Old' Age Pensions Act, with a view to meeting some of the anomalies of Ih ' Act, would ! be introduced in aifew days. '

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