PARLIAMENTARY

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2377, 19 August 1886, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY

United Press Association

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

The House met at 4.30 p.m.

Dr Newman asked the Government whether they would call for tendore for the new printing office immediately in order that the building might be finished before next session ?

The Hon. Mr Richardson said the Government had not yet decided when tenders would be called.

Dr. Newman moved the adjournment of the House. He Baid the Minister's reply was very unsatisfactory.. . Mr O'Connor said it would lie a yrong proceeding to erect thia building, while the outlying districts of. the Colony were so badly provided for. The motion for an adjournment was put-and lost. DrNowman asked the Minister of Defence if he would forthwith Appoint a commission to inquire into the claimß of the old soldiers for grants of land, Mr Ballance replied that the Government intended to appoint a commission for that purpose. Mr Macandrow asked whether the provisions of the Property Assessment Amendment Act applied to Manses and Parsonages. Mr Stout said it was not so intended, Mr Moss moved that thore be laid before the House within a month after the beginning of the session a statement of the expenditure and liabilities for the financial year under the following votes i harbour, defences, purchase of ngtivo lands, and thermal springs, the statement to show the several amounts paid or due to persons, to whom paid or due, and the services rendered respectively.— Agreed to. MrMacandrew regretted he was unable to move the resolution he had given notice of for some weeks past respecting the granting of blocks of land for relief of the unemployed, He thought that -if they spent a whole session in endeavoring tosolve this question, itwould botime well spent, as it was one of the most important questions that could be brought forward. He asked what was the value of all their legislation compared with nipping In the bud the sapling of pauperism which was now getting so general In the colony. Speaking for the Otagi/ district, ho asserted that if the homestead regulations had been put in force there tome time ago they would not have half the number of unemployed they had at present. It was utterly , impossible for one . man tn> administer the whole of the land In the colony, and without at all reflecting on the present Minister, he felt convinced that they required a Minister for Lands for each island. ' He again regretted that this important question had not been brought forward before the eve of the prorogation, but he should move the resolution's in order to get them into Hansard. He then moved the resolutions.

Sir R. Stout entirely demurred to the statement that this. Colony was exceptionally situated In respect to' their unettv

ploydd. \ they Mm Midyears »ettleui6i|;„- >•' of-piople on'toridiwoulftytar for &£}}'. motoentstoj) pauperUra to the Xmmfcwi here'rea4,' the ■ attendant of members in the GpunciLchambep to hear the ■ of prorogation'reidi v '' The members then adjourned to the Legislative Council chamber, where Par* liainent was formally prorogued by coininiasion. ;V. ' ■

The acting Speaker (Hon W. D. H, Baiilie) ocoupied the chair at 4,30. JW. Yice Regal a nflmberpf: Billi . passed" by. the Governor, was reserved, The Council adjourned to 4,55, . On the Council roauming, the Commit' sioners appointed by His Excellenoy the Governor, consisting of Messrs Whteker,, ' Buckley, nolda and Baiilie Parliament in tho presence of ten 1 members of the Council, the Speaker, and 26 members of the House. Tho Commis- i sion set forthwith particulars, prorogued to December 1(». ••../.This concluded the business, which onded, as the session had begun, in a downpour of raini