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. [Press Agp.ncy.l : • : ■ Gp^ERN^^.g^LPINGS, WEtLiNOTON, Saturday.-!; Ihe House met last night - - ■-- i ' J tKe MoMyPeM 1 . into 7 Committee of Supply. l 'A 1 Considerable number o.f H the depapljments were passed. : rjr; ' bn the^Wea'ther'^p^Hing I)e-' ..p^rtmentj-, .a ,\ lpng v/ di ) scusßJpjfi ) t took_ place, Messrs , McLean,/ "'Bajriipi''Kennecly, , and q.tjhers,, Qr^giug | i.fce abolition -of 'hti^ de'pi^iaeLt l^ luseil.^ss.r^ifo^r^for.castSj.... and, , rf , Messrs Reynolds, Shrimski, ' A^i^oid Otuaohd'aiid ''p^er'Jl maitftliffliii^ its ■asef din-SB's'. ;1 Tfi^items'^ere passed. Ove^JiawJand i J : ustice there I was a .iting .discussion concerning several item's. 'Mr Sh'eehiW'siiliVe.l that the Gq?emraen,t j Regarded the ir votes; on the present Estimates simply as 'depa;m|i^|^irSSr^'be ceeded, ; c a'nid '.saS ..ihey . would ' ; re^ arrange f the items^ r as tW fplind!( desirable, and* wotifil I save^4 much us {.ossibleir y. u -i:ii»*\ uxa aaA ' .U'r< i , , ; ;A rediicfciou of, £.4QpO was moved i,n the iliiitia. and Volunteer j estiJ Vna'^-aua^|r|B^ r 'Is6i io^" iOv^ ! The Colonial r * Architect's Departf mgut. was. reduceidj by; .£2OO. ,^ . * -. [i-n.Qa the t > ;Qpnßtab.tt!ary JCf Estimates. ! |>f-the Southern-police being armed; with ; r i fles; 'and 1 ; made ia kind bf : military force. ••■'• ;;^ ;i ' i J\£r BQWs]s said that by} converting 1 M Middle Island Police; into a— Constabulary, a reserve of. trainexLmen .were available in "base of emergency. Tbe Gdverriment had been able to dispeffseMtb 200 ' men and _a .number of officers of C mstabnlaryy ?. (\ thereby^ -. . / saving £30.000-a-year. ." . f " /Mr bSBEHAN sai* the;'Govern:miskht:wduld'give itheir b©Bt^ttention during J{ the feoeaß fto-dtmilitarisiiig , the foroe and restoring- 1 it ' r io its *-Btatusas-a-purely-.ciTil.on,e^. r^j , ,Hfr PE LAUrorjK drew' k 'a# v fiehtidri k to the 'hdrdsnip of not paying. policSffiran on the goldfields [m^ore.thati t'liose 'ih ( "t6wriij^iere the Mr SHJ^QAS: ( ;jepeaied his promise to look into the matter, and to<make the fairest use-ioft thd total available>by reassigning the rates of pay to the, number of men &6. ■ "After claus'e; il of the flail way^ Bill'"' was passed, progress wa3.>r,eported, anaHhe f 'ff6tf§6 ( Vds& at 1.40.
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 850, 27 November 1877, Page 2
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325House of Representatives. Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 850, 27 November 1877, Page 2
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