Parliament.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 177, 18 July 1901, Page 3

Parliament.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Tuesday, July 16. The House met at 10.30 a.m. In reply to questions, Ministers stated that the time had arrived for an entire change in the management of Lincoln College, so that the institution could be placed at the command of farmers’ sons of the colony. That the Government would as far as possible assist returned coutingenterS to obtain employment; that they would be given preference in joining the permanent forces, aud that all who had left the Government services w'ould be taken on again. That the Premier looked forward to the time when State paper would be used for paying Slate claims.

That the Government would this session take steps to repeal the clause of the Defence Act which enables volunteei corps to importuniforms free of duty. That the Government recognised that the licensing laws required material amendment, and favoured the suggestion that persons found illegally on hotel premises should bo equally liable with hotelkeepers.

That a State sanatorium for the treatment of consumptives would probably be erected at Naseby; if the experiment ware successful and another institution required a locality in the North Island would probably be selected; the whole subject had to be approached with grave consideration. That in future special consideration would be given -to applications from lads for appointments ih the Railway Department, when these lads are members of large families. That inquiries would be made as to the advisability of hawing a dental inspection made at regular intervals of children attending the public schools of the colony.