PRIVATE BILLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 261, 4 November 1933, Page 15

PRIVATE BILLS.

PARLIAMENT'S WORK. MR. LANGSTONE SUCCESSFUL LICENSING AMENDMENT. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. To the select list of private members who have piloted their own legislation through the House of Representatives can now be added the name of Mr. F. Langstone (Labour, Waimarino), whose Licensing Amendment Bill was passed last night. Mr. Langstone is the first member during the present Parliament to achieve this distinction, and singularly enough the final . stages of the measure were carried through in his absence, Mr. P. W. Schramm (Labour, Auckland East) watching his colleague's interests.

The bill enables liquor advertisements to be published in newspapers published in 710 license areas. Mr. Mason is the only other member of the present House who has legislation, of his own atithorship on the Statute Book.

Eull opportunity was given private members for discussion •of their bills to-day. Three such measures were read a first time. They were the Family Allowances Amendment (Mr.- W. E. Barnard, Labour, Napier), Electoral Amendment (Mr. E. T. Tirikatene, Southern Maori), and Juries Amendment (Mr. A. W. Schramm).

The British Nationality and Status of Aliens .Bill (Mr. P. Eraser, Labour, Wellington Central) was reported from committee, the promoter accepting a Ministerial assurance that the Government was only awaiting the passage of similar legislation in the House of Commons before introducing a bill enabling women who marry aliens to preserve their British nationality.

Mr. J. A. Lee's (Labour, Grey Lynn) War Pension Amendment was referred to the Defence Committee. Mr. R, McKeen (Labour, Wellington South) agreed to postpone his Summer Time Amendment Bill in the light of the Ministerial promise that legislation would be introduced by the Government.

The arrival of the week-end adjournment prevented the House from reaching Mr. IS. E. Healy's (Coalition, Wairau) Gaming Amendment Bill, which was next on the Order Paper.

Next week's business will commence with the second reading debate of the Companies Bill, and rwivate members will lose one of their days as from Wednesday " because Government business will in future take precedence on that day. Six Governor-General's messages were introduced at the sitting— Coinage, Harbours Amendment, Municipal Corporations, Stock Remedies, Tomato Growers' Registration and Poultry Runs Registration.