PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 183, 2 August 1913, Page 10

PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP.

' NOTES FROM THE GA__I_E_RY. CBy Telesrgiph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON. Friday. THE COPYRIGHT BILL. The Copyright Bill wa* road a third time and passed this afternoon, while the comniit-ee-s report on the Magistrate's Conrt Amendment Bill was adopted, and. the bill set-down for its third readin<'. TRAIN FOR SCROGGY HILL. Residents near Scraggy Hill street crossing. *Se\v l.ynn. have petitioned the House to get the last train out of Auckland daily stopppd at the crossing, as after a.4-5 pan.-there is no service-to that point. GREATER EXPEDITION WANTED. Mr Toland wishes the Minister of "Pub*k Works to say whether he will instruct his department to proceed more expeditiously with the carrying out of the improvements to the Waibott and Ohinemuri rivers authorised by the Act of 1910. -MILITARY COMFORTS. A very rmlriml inquiry regarding the nt-Stary -refresher e.anip in progress at Patmerston North has been made by Mr Dicksoi. .Parnell), desires" the House to be furnished with a retnrn showing the cost of heaters, carpets, and soft beds-for use of the English officers now in camp- at Pulmerston "North, MARRIAGE CONTROL. The-State of North Dakota, has. .paused a law providing for a general medical examination lie-ore marriage. Th" la_v prohibits imhecils, the feeble-toi-Uied, and tubercrolons p-ttirajts from marrying. Jrrstin-nlra.ted "by this example Mr .7. C Thompson wants to know if the New /Zealand Government will introduce legis\_a±ion to prevent the marriage ot the NATIVE LEAaEHOLD?. The member for 'Waikato (Mr J. A. Young) presented the repor. oi the Native Affairs Committee on the petition <A G. T. Ehiilips and 21 others, praying lor tie right to purchase ■the freehold of the sections .eased to -them in the- Morikau and *Wl_ararangi Blocks. The Te-! port stated that _.s a question of policy was involve the committee had no re-corn-uendarion .to make. Beplyi-n'- to a plea for the lessees by Mr E. "VV. "-Smith. Mr toung-&_id*i__at*t_u3.cx)-i_i_r_t-ee.co-dd Mti_ive.Te|Kn±e-._n_-ay-or_h c e _ r , lea - ? _& the .oat-bar -was one of -policy. A.fc"-__te-eame- tape. ___ coD-adar-d !-___!>«___ «___-, I3^^P^^O^ f i^g^ 3^_m J d