PARLIAMENTRY.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1117, 12 October 1904, Page 3

PARLIAMENTRY.

By Telegraph.—Press Awooiation. Wem.wqton, this day. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Ykstkrday Thk Council met at 2,30. MAORI ANTIQUITIES. Tho Maori Antiquities Bill 'was passed through its final stages. 'HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES YKSTKRDAY Tho Bouse met at 2,30. FIRST READINGS Tho Petano Foreshow) Vesting Bill (Mr Wilford) and Masteiton Trust Lands Trust Empowering Bill (Mr Hogg) woro road ut iiwt timo. TRADE MONOPOLIES Mr. Soddon asked to bo allowed to move tho Ttado Monopolies Prevention Bill a second time pro forma, notwithstanding that tho necessary two days' notice ill accordance with the Standing Orders had not been given, and then to refer the Rill to tho Industriesiand Commerco Committeo,

Sit W. Russell objected to the course proposoil by tho I'romit.r. Tho Standing Orders sbo'ulJ be observed. Mr. Seddoii said that nil lie was asking was tho courtesy of tho Houso to refer this Bill direct to tho committee

The Speaker ruled that the motion could not couie on, as tho necessary notioe had nothcen given, mid tho unanimous consent of the lloiiso had not been aecordod,

SHOPS AND OFFICES BILL

At 3 p.m. the House went into committoo for tho further consideration of the Bhops and Offices Hill. $ Consideration of tho interpretation clauso wss resumed,

Sovoral members said that if tho pro. sent law was stringently administered, as threatened by the Premier, it would work very harshly in country districts iu regard to tho dolivery of goods, seeing that it would bo a breach of tho Act if a man drove homo from delivering goods after 1 p.m. on the half holiday. It wa«, he contended, impossible to lit a regular hour for tho return of delivery carts.

Mr. Sedilcn said tho present proposal was exactly the law us laid down by the Act of 1896, and that Act was operating in tho direction of checking what was an abuse beforo it was passul, Unless thero was somo such law shop assistants would bo kept in tho shop until 1 p.m. on S»tur 4 days, wid then bo .«nt out all tho after* noon delivering orders. The way out of tho difficulty wns to provide that iho re 4 turn journey after delivery should not count,

The subject was discussed during tho wholo aftornoon, various proposals being rnado as to the best way to relieve tho country storekeepers from tho difficulty it was contended they would bo placed in if tho proposal* contained in the clause bocatuo law, and ut tho samo time to prevent the ttMS'.imts being wrongiy done by.

Mr 11.I 1 . Mackenzie moved to insert ft proviso thin tho definition of shop bs« aistant should not npply to country keepers' regular delivery carts or to boats or pack-horses delivering bona fide wade-up packages or receiving (arm produce, srli delivery nnd reception not to be made Within a borough or within tlireo miles of a borough, nor within ft disirict with ret gard to which an award had boon made under' tho Arbitration ,Act in this, respect,

Messrs A. L. D, Frasor and T. Maekcnzio strongly deprecated tho action of tho city mombers and certain peil agitators in attempting to dittato to tho pcoplo in country districts as to how thoy should conduct their business. Tho House rose at 5,!i0 The Honse resurnod at 7.i!0.

A further lengthy discussion took placo on the interpretation clause of tho Shops and Offices Bill, and eventually a new paragraph was carried, on Mr. Scddon's motion, extending tho conditions under which goods can bo delivered in country districts

On tho reading of clauso 8 progress was roportod, and the Housd roso at 1.10 until 7.30 p.m. to-day, iu consideration of its being Labour Day,