WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 15 October 1914, Page 4

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

BT TRLEOIIAPH PRISSS 4SPOCIATION

In the Council, the Hon. Hardy resumed the debate on the committal of the Factories Act Amendment Bill. Hon. Mr Moore withdrew his amendment that the Bill be read six months hence. •

In the course of the debate, Sir William Hall-Jones deprecated that a Labor Bill which was sent through from the House without one dissentient voice should be treated in such a way. He criticised the findings of the Labor Bills Committee, and said that women were not well treated in woollen mills.