POLITICAL NOTES

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19970, 3 July 1930, Page 8

POLITICAL NOTES

[*HB PBBSS Sp«cW Service.] WELLINGTON, July 2. Bank of New ZeaJanf . _ Having as its object the reinvestment of the control of the Bank o New Zealand's administration ifc Mm State, the Bank of New Zealand Amend meat Bill made another appearance in the House of Represetatives to-day, being in charge of Mr F. Langatone fLab.. Waimarino). Mf Z n-e New Zealand did all the U,, whole M sh*& tLo Government tad nower was taken away from them in ?Q2O They could not now even vote or shareholders owing to The Govinto which the bank had got« , ernment had to assist the bank to the extent of £5,231,000 m and_ antees. However, under the 1020 Act a authority had again been aken the Government s hands. The B to restore the Government s power. The Bill was read a first time.

Advertising of Contracts. The Department of Lands and Survey has been instructed to give full publicity in the South Canterbury< to* trict to all contract work offered by tender, said the Minister for Lands (the Hon. E. A. Ransom) in the House or Representatives to-day, in reply to a question by Mr T. D. Burnett (R., Tem Mr asked whethe* in ail future contract work advertised in conncxion with land for settlement improvements in South Canterbury, he wiU instruct his officers to see that the papers with the largest town and country circulation in that district are not Ignored, thereby restricting and limiting competition.

St. Helens Hospital. The condition of the St. Helens Hospital building in Christchurcb was referred to by Mr D. G. Sullivan (Lab.j, Avon), in the House of Representatives to-day, when ho gave notice to ask the Minister for Health whether he would take steps to investigate the dilapidated state of the strueture. Mr Sullivan pointed out that the Minister had expressed himself as being absolutely shocked at the state of the building when he was in Christchurch recently, and he asked whether the Minister would consider the appointment of official visitors in order that Buch a state of affairs would Dot be likely to recur through the neglect to make official representations. Mr Sullivan made it clear that he referred only to the state of the building, in no way making his references applicable to the staff or administration Nurses' Training.

An opportunity for the making of representations on the proposals contained in the Nurses and Midwives Registration Amendment Bill is to be made available, according to a promise given in the House of Representatives this aftornoon, when' the Bill was read a first time. Numerous petitions have already been presented to the House, particularly 011 behalf of the Trained Nurses' Association, asking that evidence on the proposals should be heard before the Bill is passed. The main intention of the BUI is to remove the statutory disability which now prevents a private hospital from being approved as a training school. When the Bill was introduced by the Minister for Health, the Hon. A. J, Stallworthy, Mr J. A. Nash (8., Palmerston) asked whether the Bill was in the same form as introduced last session.

Mr A. Harris (8., Waitemata) *»k*d whether the Minister would give effect to the petitions from the Trained Nurses' Association asking that it be allowed to Rive evidence before a Parliamentary Committee. Mr H. E. Holland, Leader of the Labour Party, suggested that the Minister should consent to the Bill being read a second time pro forma, and referred to a committee for the purpose of taking evidence. The Minister said ho would later ask the House to refer the Bill to the Health Committee. The Bill had been somewhat altered from the form in which it had appeared last year. The Bill was read a first time.