Parliamentary.

Bush Advocate, Volume V, Issue 354, 16 August 1890, Page 3

Parliamentary.

HOUSE OF "REPRESENTATIVES. Thursday, August 14. TJbkO Hovi39i,.XQßuraecl at 7.30 p.m. SEAT OF GOVERNMENT. On the motion that the House go into Committee os Supply* Mr Taylor moved as an amendment that the G»Y,ernm,ent , should ■ tho, necessary steps to obtain a permanent location ,for a, legjijlat}y&, tfapitalof the colony, by purchasing 1500 acres of land pn the Canter^ bury' plains, to be laid out as a township. „t „ . , . ■:■' , i# .• -.-. THe amendment was lost without dißcussipn by 36 to 29, , „ „ , ■ • '* SUPPLY." The House went in Comn>ittiee,of Supply for the consideration of the estimates. Justice Department, Supreme Court, £7595.— Mr Fish |cuoved ; to ; reduce the vote by £915, being the amount of the salaries of the Deputy r Registrars of ' Auckland:, "Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. Heihad .been 1 informed that those offices were unnecessary. Lost by 35 to 34.— Mr Fish moved a reduction .: of £815. The ■ vote being equal, the Chairman gave his casting vote in favor of the noes.— Mr T. Thompson moved that the vote be reduced by £590, being tho amount, ;of clerks'- salaries at Auckland, .Wellington* Dunedin, and Christchurch,' and aril increase of £33 in the. salary of the registrar at Wellington; , This was carried by, 36 to 33. , . . Bankruptcy, ., £7053.— Mr T. Thompson moved, to reduce this voW by £64.5, bejing. £7.5 off the assignees at Auckland, Wellington, and 'Christchurch, and £60 off the I)unbdin assignee, ,; leaving those, salaries at £400 ea,oh, a-nd, aIBO £3000 "off the item ' p| , £35^0 r fpr contingences.— ln ; reply ,to Mr Barron Captain Russell said, that the. bankruptcy department ( was more than 1 ; self-supporting. The fees received last year were about £10,654, and the expenditure was very much less. The salaries of these officers had already been reduced, and now it Was proposed to out them down 25 per cent. The proposed reduction by' £645 was lost by 32 to 31. — Captain Russell said he would accept a total'reduction on the vote of £445, including a reduction of £#5 from eaoh' oi the assignees.-- The. total vote as reduced by £445 then passed.,,; . : ; . 1 District Resident Magistrates' , and Wfodenii' Courts,:. £43,^82;^--Mr Fish/ inbved ' to reduce this vote by £10-15-, including striking off ail; increases on salaries over 420,0, ai^d£so off the "Beßifteht ''Magistral? *. at Auckland,' ' G^isborne 1 ' W eilihgtoij, . Ohrisjfcohuf oh, • Grre^'uiOyth, Kaiapoi, Timaru, and DUhediu, and £25; off the Resident Magistrate at Qamarui. aad £400 off the item : '" Travelling expenses, mileage, l £l I,B6o:"— Sir J;ohn Hall. ,in ■ defending the vote, said that the reductions effected this session had had a most injurious effect, and he knew that many deserving officers were already looking' for employment ' elsewhere, —Mr. T.» Thompson suggested that Mr Fish > should withdraw his motion, and that^Ministers should accept a reduction of £650 on the total vote.— Captain Russell agreed to- this, and, Mr Fish withdrew his motion, . the total' rote as reduced by £650 being passed on the voices. Prisons, £40,610. -r- Mr Fish moved a reduction of v £2953, including £100 from tlie Inspector of Prisons (£700) and £800 from contingencies and reductions of tho salaries of the gaolers at Wellington, Nepier, Auckland, Lyttleton, and Hokitika. In doing bo he : strongly condemned the adminis- : tration of the Inspector of Prisons. \ He said that the same gentleman was also Commander of Volunteers and it was well known that by his management of that body he was gradually undermining the service in order "to supplement it with a partially paid system. — Captain Russell said that Colonel Hume.' was only Inspector of Volunteers, not commandant, and he had proved a very efficient officer. By amalgamation of offices that officer was now performing for £700 a year dutie3 which formerly cost the colony £2400 a year.— After along discussion Mr Fish's motion was lost by 20 to 16.— Mr T. Thompson moved to reduce the vote by £1500, leaving it to the Minister to exercise his own discretion as to the direction in which he made it.— The reduction of £1500, was agreed to on the voices, Ministers concuringi ' Miscellaneous Services, £3253.-— Mr Goldie movtJd to reduce the item "contingencies, £3000," by £500. •This was agreed, to and progress Tffas jreportefy ; ,