PARLIAMENTARY
House of Representatives.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30
The House met at 2.30.
The Premier gave notice to move on Friday that the Customs Duties Bill take precedence of all other business until it is disposed of. EVENING SITTING. The House resumed at 7.80. Major Stewart moved the second reading of the Licensing Committees Election Bill, which provides that the elections shall be triennial, and be simultaneous with the local option poll. He explained that the Bill was not at all a new one, and stated that a saving of £20,000 would be made by adoption of the principal embodied in it.
A long discussion ensued, and eventually the second reading was carried by 44 to 28. The Educational Franchise Bill was read a third time and passed. The debate on the second reading of the Hospitals and Charitable Aid Institutions Bill was further adjourned for a fortnight.
Sir George Groy moved the second veudiug of tlie Laud jk Settlement
Bill, which provided facilities to all people to go on the land who were capable of cultivating it. The Premier said he would not oppose the second reading, since the M* was to go before the Waste LaiiJf'
Committee. The Bill was not .practical, and would lead to very great ex-, pense. Sir George Grey replying, said the state of New Zealand absolutely required some such Bill as this. The second reading of the Bill was agreed to on the voices, and the Bill was ordered to be referred to the Waste Lauds Committee.
The' Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Bill was committed. _ A new clause was inserted oil the motion of Sir John Hall, providing that Postmasters should be gazetted for the purpose of making statutory declarations. A new clause moved by Mr Hutchison providing for the payment by the Crown of witnesses summoned to the Supreme Court on behalf of a prisoner was negatived. Mr Hutchison moved a new clause providing that husband and wife may give evidence for or against each other, and at this juncture progress was reported, ; The House rose at 12,30.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2912, 31 May 1888, Page 2
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