HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. [FROM "HANSARD."] PROVINCIAL APPROPRIATION ACTS CONTINUANCE BILL

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXI, Issue 5653, 26 October 1875, Page 3

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. [FROM "HANS ARD."] PROVINCIAL APPROPRIATION ACTS CONTINUANCE BILL

Major Atkinson, in moving the second reading of this bill, haul it was a bill which was rendeied necessaiy through the House having decided that the 1'iovinci.il Councils ■sveie not to meet again It simply provided that the departmental expenditure might be continued until the 150th September next ; that all the surplus icvenue, aftci having been estimated, might be expended by the Supciintendcnt upon .such public woiks as he thought advisable, at Lei hawng been appioved ot by the (Jovemoi Jle might lepcat now, what he had stated on se\ ei al occasions, that the (ioveinnient did not desne to inteifere in these matteis of local government .my moie than the House natmally expected they should— that was to oiiy, to a sulhoient extent to protect the public le venue. The only clauses that i e(juned remaik ■were Clauses 0 and 7, which pi o\ided foi a suihcient aum to cany on the neceasaiy \\ 01 ks and tlie government ot the Pioviuces of Auckland and Weetland. ile might state that these amounts had been arrived o.t aftei consultation with th» I'lovincial Tieasuiei of Auckland and the Nil} enntendent of Westland. Honourable gentlemen would see, by an examination of the estimates of those provinces that he had the honour to lay on the table of the House, the necessity foi those sums. If the House should deane it, he would be able to go more into particulars, but lion, members would see that the amounts were moderate, and weie easily explained by reteience to those items with which, no doubt, honourable gentlemen on the other Hide of the House ■weio intimately acquainted. He would further state that, in the second paragraph of that clause, it w as proposed, if necessaiy, to take power to laisc Tieasury bills for those amounts ; but it was not the intention of tho (Government to use that power if the Consolidated Revenue was sufficient to bear the bin den. With those remarks, he begged to move the second reading of the bill, bill read a second time, consideied in Committee, repoited to the House, and read a thiul time.