PARLIAMENTARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5115, 28 August 1895, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY.

JOTTJNQS." The Minister of Lands hopes to have tho Fair Rent Bill beforo the House in a few days. Mr Pirani wants tho Government to station a detective at Palmorston North permanently. of Labour was asked bfj&c Pirani yesterday," If lie will consider the advisability of appointing' a member of tho legal profession ltt oach district, at a fired scale of cbargos, to act on behalf of workmen seeking to recover their wages under ' Contractors' and Workmen's Lien Act aud similar enactments," Tho Minister said yos; lie was prepared to consider this, Mr Joyce is to ask the Premier, Will the Government, during the recoss, set up a Royal Commission to onquire into the report upon tho >whole system of legislation and administration of the licensing laws of tho Colony, such report in particular to deal exhaustively with the quesI tioa of brewers being landlords, or »- -f having any control of licensed houses, yMd tho question of publicans paying on ly tho. routal of their promißOS which would be payablo is no licenso ttoro attached thereto ? Mr Hogg complnincd yesterday that money voted for the purposes of primary education was devoted by the education boards to twKcal education No less than £2OOO, he said, was expended this way inono year in Wellington. The Minister of Education pointed out that it was necessary that teachers ■ should have opportunities of obtaining instiuction in such subjects (is drawing. He was inclined to think that any reasonable expenditure in that way was quite proper and jiistiable,—N.Z, Times.