LAST NIGHT'S SITTING.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1265, 7 August 1880, Page 3

LAST NIGHT'S SITTING.

After i,he Public Works Statement hail been ina4^,Mr Macandrew suggested that the Bopae, should adjourn s.o as to allow members to consider the Statement. He was disappointed, but scarcely surprised at the Statement. Mr Hall said he thought it would be undesirable to adjourn, especially when other works were ready to be gone on with. On the motion for going into Committee of Supply, Mr Barron moved an amendment, suggesting that the Government continue payment of subsidies to local bodies up to thoejidof 1881. Mr Pyke pointed out that the subsidies nuifat be paid until the Financial Arrangements Act was repealed or expired. He did not think that the Government could withhold thu wuuoy duo, oi 1 that

the House would repeal the Act. He appealed to the Government to state their intentions on the subject. Mi McLean asked where the money to pay the subsidies was to come from. Major Atkinson said the motion was not a very practical one. It should have been accompanied by a resolution to double the Property Tax, for in no other way could the Government find the .•£300,000 required to pay the subsidies. There were no subsidies now, and due notice had been given of their discontinuance to local bodies. Further payment of subsidies must mean further taxation. The -motion was withdrawn, and, on Mr Hall's motion, the House adjourned at 10.15 p.m.