HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. YESTERDAY'S SITTING.
The Council met at 2 30. Questions. Replying to questions put it was stated Government would, during the recess, carefully consider the report of the Otago Pastoral Waste Land Committee, and would accept its recommendations as indicating the particular points in which amendments should be considered. The Government intended next sitting day to introduce the proposed Patents Act Amendment Bill ; Government did not propose adding a fire to its Life Assurance Department ; provisions would be made for dispensing with the stamped receipt on payment of Imperial pensions. New Bills. On the orders of the day being called, Mr Speight moved the adjournment ot the House, staling that he did so for the purpose of ventilating a grievance re the Pension question, when Mr Bowen objected to the forms of the House being used for stonewalling purposes. The Speaker refused to interfere. Mr Speight intimated that he did not wish the country to be put to the expense of reporting his speech. The debate was interrupted by the 5.30 adjournment.
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Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1428, 27 August 1881, Page 2
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174HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. YESTERDAY'S SITTING. Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1428, 27 August 1881, Page 2
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