QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 138, 11 June 1909, Page 4

QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT.

SOME INTERESTING -QO-BRIES. - ACTIVITY OP AUCEXANI>.___MBBKa; J . \(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Keporter.J . WEI I2NGTON, this '"aay. --• Quite a "numher of .are to he asked upon the first«Epar£unity. Auckland -members are.espseMyinquisitive. Mr. Poole-wants *ib'_nbwi?hat' " steps, if any, are being takento -leans (j ~-., j the police iforce of iihe Dominion, atari j ■"ercise greater "of aBSn) •for -this important .department-.'• JSri - |.Poole points .-out "that recent '-eveTfljK-,;, j _nents "have made the public nmidnrreasyj | and "tire greatest-care .-is -taken.'-; there is 'a chance that "order and safety ,'• will be subjects of the past. Another; ' matter Poole wants ' information | about is when the Minister of Marina - purposes to deal with t"he Auckland river, limits. .Mr. Poole also "TOa-nts "to -how -whether it as a fact that "the fittings >'of "trucks -intended to he built in Auckland. . have been sent south from She 3\Fewmarket workshops, the o-esult heing that! numbers aif men are out of i«mploy*nent, at Newmarket. Mr. Glover would dike to know whe'th'en the Prime Minister will, at the earliest opportunity, next enable the question oi workers' .homes to he fully discussed, and whether he will, during the prorogation of Parliament, cause inquiries to he made .for the most suitable ' ■sites 3or .the Erection ,of •woj-kmenVhomes! ! within sasy "reach abi "the .city o£ Auek- ' Hand. '•'-'- ----Mr. Poland asks the Prime .Ittinsteij the Government -will j=-ive ene*cti during the present yeaar, to "the •unanimous request of the people of the Eastl Coast district of Auckland province -fou the more speedy construdtinn of the line. of railway through that district; by the commencement Of the .constauetion works? ; at the Waihi end. Mr. Stanwrathy's -mind is -exercised over the route of the North Auckland i railway beyond Topuni, and he has put a question to the Minister of Public Works on the -snojerrt. He also intends to ask the iP.rrmg Minister whether he has yet fully realised the state of the kauri indust-ry, and' if so, -what steps he has taken and pro- . poses to take to put the industry on a | better Sooting. ■ 1 Mt. Hang asked the Minister "of Agri-" ; culture to refrain irom gazetting ahC bringing into operation any new dairy .' regulations until Paxlia-ment has hud an opportunity of exprerasing an cpmibn thereon. Mr. Lang --thinks the Government ought to give Parliament -an Tipper- . tunify to amend the Land Act of 1907 iff the direction of giving settlers going '6a to the land set .apart as endowmentrs under that Act the benefit of the -optional system, instead of the much-ohjectetMo renewable lease, and he asks the-Govern-ment to do so. Mr. Jennings is to ask .. the Prime Minister whether he -will, in view of the unsatisfactory conditaon of affairs in Taumarunui electorate, .a* shown by the number of convictions of persons for alleged sly-grog selling, and ■• the recent granting of wholesale licenses in the said electorate, grant to the residents the right of voting local option, the same as is extended to -electors ol other electorates throughout the Dominion. Mr. Jennings contends that publia meetings addressed by persons connected with the temperance cause and newspapers published throughout the TJominion show that some alteration _f *the present condition of affairs is necessary. Mr- E. H." Taylor will ask the Miniates of Lands whether he will, with the cooperation of the Minister of Mines, take the necesFarv steps to enable a block of land containing 15,000 acres applied for under the Hauraki Pastoral Leases Act, in the Hauraki peninsula, to be settled! Mr Taylor allege? that the deadlock at present existing between the Mines ' Department and the Lands Department on the question has, up to the present, prevented a solution of the difficulty. It -remains to be seen how many of these questions will be answered this session.