HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2670, 22 August 1889, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

(I'.V TULEOUAI'It, — I'IIKSS ASSOCIATION). WEDNESDAY. Tho House met at 2.30. Implying t» questions Ministers sail] they would consider the proposal to iillow renddrossed letters to bo sent free. Tlio Government, would reserve mining areas within tin , , hind reserved for the Midland Railway Cnup my whon the Company applied for tlioir area.' Mr Guimies.s moved the adjournment of the. House to discuss the question urging t!i:it the House should know what reserves the Government intended making. After some discussion the motion for adjournment was lost. The Government had no intention of appointing .1 Select Committee to enquire into the cuises of the depression. The following Bills were introduced :— Binkruptcy Hill, Public Works Act Am-.ndment Bill, Public Schools Bill, a Mill to amend the Tun am High School Act, IS7S, Amendment Act, 1882. Mr Moss moved the adjournment of the House to call attention to the exodus now liikiiis place from the colony, and which the Government should take sonic means tn stl,ll- - discussion was stopped by the ii.oO adjournment. The House resumed at 7.30. On the motion for going into committee on thn Imprest Supply Bill, Mr Balance asked wli it business the Government intended going on with. Sir H. Atkinson said he would make a statement in a few days on the subject. TliiJ liuprest Supply Bill for £200,000 passed all stages. On the motion of Mr Versus, the amendments made by the Legislative Council in Triennial Licensing Bill were agreed to by r>4 to 33. The Mercantile Liw Act Amandmint Bill passed through committee without amendments. On the motion for the committal of the Animals Protection Amondment Bill, Mr Melvenzie (Waihemo) moved that the Bill bis icad that day three months. Amendment lost by 40 to 2S, and the Bill was committed. Several amendments <in Clause 4 were lost,, and it then passed Clause ~i, amended to the effect that no person shall kill or shoot at any game or native came with any gun exceeding ten pounds in weight. A clause providing that no person bo allowed to shoot game on his own land was, on the motion of Mr McKenzie, struck out. Clauses 8 and i) wore also struck out. Mr Duncan moved a new clause requiring every holder of a license to sell game to keep a book in which to record the particulars of any game ho may purchase and the district where it was shot. Agreed to. Mr Taipua moved a new clause fixing the season for shooting curlew during tho months of February, March and April. The Bill was then reported with amendments, read a third time and passed. The Mercantile Law Amendment Bill, and the Shipping and Seamen's Act Amendment Bill, were read a third time and passed. The House rose at 11.30.