LATE PARLIAMENTARY.
TO-DAY'S STOTNG. (By Telegraph—PaxOameirtary Eeporter.l WELLXSEGTOKr, this day. The House of Representatives resumed at 9.30 a.m. to-day. The Fisheries Amendment Bill, Prevention of ilonopoliea Amendment BiH, Harbour Amendment Bill, Shipping and Seamen's Amendment Bill were passed through, thei? final stages without amendmeirfc. JOSHUA JOKES' (TLATM The Teport of the Joshua Jones' Claimz Committee, recommending £3,000 as an ex grartia payment, was neit considered. Three hours' debate on party lines followed, and (the report was adopted on the voices. Mr McOallum (a member of the committee) dissented from the report, considering Mr Jones had no legal chum on the Staie. ■Mr Statham took the opposite view. COUNTRY TELEPHONIES. The Country Telephones Bill, empowering comity councils and road boards to erect and .maintain telephone lines out of special loans, acting jointly if necessary, waa introdnced by the PostmasterGeneral and passed. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES. The Supplementary Estimates were next discussed. The Prime Minister said they included £20,500 increase to pnßHe servants, mostly of the rank and file. He added that justice had scarcely been done to departmental heads.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19121107.2.42
Bibliographic details
Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 267, 7 November 1912, Page 5
Word Count
176
LATE PARLIAMENTARY.
Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 267, 7 November 1912, Page 5
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Auckland Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries.
Log in