H0USE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1458, 16 August 1883, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

In ihe House yes'erday, tho Mount Ida Water Rice Trust Bill was read a second time, In committee of t|io whole, i\fr SniTff moved an address to the Governor lo place JEGOOO on thfi esijnriies as a grant to t-üblic libraries. , Tho Hoi) M«j«r Atjjinso.v opposed the motion with r«lucance, but really the colony could not alf.rd it. Messrs Montgomery, Shouherd, George, Sheelian, Duncan, Macnndrew, Grey, Fitzgerald, and others simported the motion, and Messrs O'Callnghan and Hursthoiise opposed it. A ]nii» discussion ensued, members speaking lime after time. Mr Wynn Willi,uk first wanted the vote returned to M) 00, mid towns excluded, but afterwards withdrew first the former, and then tho latter proposal. Mr Fergus thought the four principal cities should be excluded. Mr Baiiuon would exclude all towns with over 5000 population. Mr ■O'Oii.uaiiAS woull oxclude all libraries which, according to la-it year's list, had mi' iueomo of over a year. . Mr White suggested that the maximum to any one library should bo fixed, Mr Ivess and others said members wero talking in order to keep the discussion L'oing till after 12.30, and so blocking out all private member's business lower down the paper. ■ Shortly after Iho hour named the committee divided on Mr O'Cnlliiglmn's motion lo exclude all libraries having an income on last ye/irs's list of over £IOO, This was lost by 43 to 14 Mr Dick then moved, as an addition to the original motion, that the vote be distributed on the same conditions ut las ye .r, but that no library should receive oi er £SO. Afmr a little further discussioja this wa6 carried by 35 to 15, and the motion, as amended, was then agreed to, The House resumed and adjourned at 125.