COUNTRY MEMBERS STONEWALL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 177, 26 July 1907, Page 5

COUNTRY MEMBERS STONEWALL.

(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.)

WELLINGTON, Thursday.

It was evident just before the dinner adjournment of the House that a stonewall was being kept up by half a dozen country members on Mr McKenzie's Noxious Weeds Act Amendment Bill, and Mr Lewis (Courtenay) suggested that as soon as Auckland was disposed of another name would crop up, therefore it would be better to make the measure permissive all over the colony., , Mr Heke (Northern Maori representative) asked if he would have the right to move a further amendment limiting the scope of the bill in Auckland to the city itself. Mr Buddo who, in the absence of Sir Wm. Steward, had been voted to the chair), replied that this was clearly an absurdity, but the member was in order though no doubt the House would reject the amendment. Mr Rutherford joined the army of talkers after supper, and affected to be anxious about the condition of Auckland's streets. The deduction from the amendment proposed by Mr Heke was, he said, that Auckland was a decaying city, and that its streets were overrun with noxious weeds. He would like* an assurance on the subject from the Leader of the Opposition. (Laughter.) Progress was reported at 11.15 o'clock and the Hon. Jas. Carroll then moved that the House should adjourn. The matter was debated until 11,40, when the i _di_u_-nneßk«B* sacried _» im -seises.