LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11111, 1 November 1901, Page 5

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

AFTERNOON SITTING. , The Legislative Council met at 2.30 o'clock. STATE COAL MINE. The State Coal Mina Bill was received from the House, passed the first reading, and read a second time pro forma, and referred to the Goldfields Committee. CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION. The MINISTER FOR EDUCATION said he moved with regret the third reading of thz Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Bill, as he considered that the power given to either party to set up special conciliators and to refer the dispute direct to the Arbitration Court destroyed the Act's first principle of conciliation. Mr TWOMEY said that if he had ths chance again .be would vote against the special clause. Ha had voted, for it in tbs heps that he could amend it subsequently." He supported direct reference to the Court by either party. Mr SCOTLANI) supported the third reading, and said there was no ground for the morbid, suspicion of the Arbitration Court. Mr JENKINSON spoke about an hour and a quarter against the Bill, and read a list •which he stated was supplied to him by the Secretary of tiie Canterbury Trades Council of seventeen names of Unionists, including eleven in the curriers' trade, alleged to have b=«n discharged in cocsequence of the part they took in disputes under the Act* Mr LKE SMITH was speaking against the Bill's conciliation provisions whin the Council rose at 5 o'clock till 7.30 p.m. LAKE ELLESME-iS. The MINISI-R FOR EDUCATION told Mr Taiaroa that the Native Minister would make enquiries into the Lake EUesmere drainage as affecting the Taumuiu native commonage.