LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2087, 15 September 1896, Page 3

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

September \Q-. Mr W. C.'Sin'th look the. oath «nd hie i seat tor the'first-time in th* Council. , : Mr K«)liy That' Sα the opinion of the Council it i* r desirable thpt a por ii»n of'tie pnhlio woihs fond , from the loin he 'to thn ftßfAlvi'hment ' and rqiapm»rif of technical schools of ' agricu tare »nri m>»niifae"*ure in uru; , " Duttj of'the colony aeiauy'."'be rt/peinnd and that the aiteiitipn of''the'β-overuinent be called "thertiti. w'th the view of siibraftting: proposals t> Parliament thi-j Hβ enid theft appeared to him thnt <the lack of techi.ical wae one of the chief defects in our educational system. Hβ pointed titbe higher technical education in Germany as >tie reason why that country was sorely wresting many of her manufactures from Engiand. Loct on the voitep. The Crimia&l Code Act Amendment ■Bill was lost. Several Bide were rend a fir ft time, and en Imprest Bill passed all its stagey The Shipping and Seamen's Act Amend* metrt Bill paespd its second reading:, and the Private Benefit Societies Bill was dieoueeed. < Septembbb 11, The Defamation Bill was read a third time and passed. The second reading's of the Abattoirs and Slaughterhouses Act Amendment Bill, Wages ProtedtioD, Poverty Bay Lands and Deeds Registration Districts Bill, Ngatitoa Trust Bill, Grey town Trustees Empowering Bill and Trade Union Act Amendment Bill were agreed to without important debate. The-Private Benefit Societi'ie Bill was killed, and Photograph Copyright Bill reported., ,