LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10785, 12 October 1900, Page 5

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

EVENING SITTING.

AFTERNOON SITTING.

The Council met at 2.30 p.m BILLS PASSED.

It was decided to agree to the amendments made by the House of Representatives in the Companies Act Amendment Bill. The Electoral Act Amendment Bill' was read a third time and passed. PRIVATE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS BILL.

Mr W. C. WALKER, moved the third reading of tba Private Industrial Schools Regulation and Industrial Schools Act Amendment Bill. Dr. Grace moved the recommittal of the Bill in order to reinstate the words "as aforesaid" in clause 4. In doing so, he stated that by the striking out of the words, it was made impossible for something like two hundred girls who at present were being educated in the convent schools throughout the colony to continue receiving education. He referred at length to the good work done at St. Joseph's Orphanage, Wellington, where eighty-nine girls had homes, the whole of their affairs being- administered by tb.9 nuns until they reached the age of twenty-one and whenever they were out of service they had tlie distinct privilege of returning to the school. . Colonel PITT thought separate schools should be established in provincial districts for boys and girls, Roman Catholic children to bs "sent say to' Nelson, Anglican children to Christchurch, Presbyterian children to Otago, and Non-conformist children to Auckland, the clergy of each denomination having free access to impart religious instruction. Messrs TWOMEY and REEVES supported the motion. Mr JONES endorsed the encomiums on the work of the convents, but thought as the Act was not operative for twelve months the motion was premature.

Mr BOWEN could not agree to committing anybody to confinement under the charts of anybody but the State who cvdered the committal.

Mr BONAR eulogised the work of the convents.

Dr. GRACE'S motion was defnr.?d by i.6 votes to 15. The Bill was read a third lime and passed. OTHER BILLS PASSED. The Foreign Insurance Company's Deposits Bill, and the Government "Loans to Local Bodies Act Amendment Bill, were passed through Committee ""without amendment, read a third time, and passed. INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION. - •In Committee on the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Bill, Mr RIGG moved to strike out "or any," in clause 56, so as to compel all parties to a. dispute to execute a memorandum of agreement before such memorandum was valid. Th;s was lost by 16 votes to 11. Mr RIGG'S motion to amend clause 57, so as to necessitate all parties agreeing to a memorandum of consent among themselves, where such memorandum is drawn up before the Board's recommendation is filed, was also lost by 17 votes to 10. The new clause, 103 a, states that if any person prints or publishes anything calculated to obstruct or with, or prejudicially affect any matter before the Board or Court, he shall for every offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding £50. Mr RIGG moved that where an award is mads by the Court, or an agreement entered into by the parties to a dispute, the terms shall be binding on the Crown, or any Government Department, employing workers in a similar industry. Mr SHRIMSKI raised a point of order that the clause was a money clause, and the Council could not deal with* it.

Progress was reported, and tho Council adjourned at 4.37 p.m., for the Speaker's ruling at 7.30 p.m.

The Council resumed at 7.30 p.m. The SPEAKER said the clause proposed by Mr Rigg might be held to affect an appropriation of public money, and, if the Council inserted it, it would be his duty to see it was so printed, as not to form part of tho Bill when it went to the other House. Mr RIGG'S motion was lost by 17 votes to 7. The new clause, 100 a, was added, givmg-to members of Boards and Courts, or their authorised representatives, extended powers of entry of works and premises for inspection, or interrogation of persons, any person obstructing or hindering such inspection or interrogation, to T>e liable to a penalty, not exceeding £50. The Bill was reported, read a third time, and passed.

ANIMALS' PROTECTION BILL. The Animals' Protection Bill was read a second time.

The Council rose at 8.50 p.m.