The day in Parliament

Press, 26 November 1987, Page 8

The day in Parliament

PA Wellington Members of Parliament presented 45 petitions, the majority of them calling for the retention of post offices planned for closing, when Parliament resumed at 2 p.m. yesterday. The petitions against post offices were from: Mr J. P. Anderton (Lab., Sydenham) on behalf of John James and others in respect of Rowley post office; and.J. Thornton and others, K. Gooch and others, J. Fisher and others, W. Benson and others (all Christchurch Railway station post office). Mr lan McLean (Nat., Tarawera) — Margaret Hill and Thelma Young and 931 others (Owhata): Leonard Poulter Leary and others (Okere Falls). Miss Ruth Richardson (Nat., Selwyn) — E. Watson and others (Springfield): Mary Wallington and others (Lake Coleridge); D. Wright and others (Glentunnel); Mars Meder and others (Hororata): J. A. Josephs and others (Coalgate); Margaret Copland and others (Kirwee); R. Gifford and others (Prebbleton); Bill Woods and others (Sheffield); H. E. James and others (Wigram Air Force base); J. W. and M. A. Graham and others' (Branston); C. M. Holmes and others (Casebrook). Mr Kenneth Shirley (Lab., Tasman) — Bill Malins and 525 others (Karamea); Norman Richard Tvrdeic and 604 others (Cobden). Mr R. J. Gerard (Nat., Ranglora) — S. Thomas and others (Waipara); Mary Wright and others (Cust), J. L. Dutton and others (Hawarden).

Mrs Jenny Shipley (Nat., Ashburton) — Mary Rose Thomson and others (Southbridge). Mr W. R. Storey (Nat., Waikato) — Royce Barclay and 401 others (Dalesford). . Mr Robin Gray (Nat., Clutha) — R. P. Anlcich and others (Waitahuna). Mrs Margaret Austin (Lab., Yaldhurst) — Kathy Lowe and others (Cheviot); Joanne Cartland and others (Woodend). Mr M. P. McTigue (Nat:, Timaru) presented 17 petitions asking for legal status to be given by statute to the unborn child. They were from: Sister Mary Keane and others; Sylvia Lorraine Hayes and others; Mary Quinlan Horgan and others; W. V. Bourke and others; Graham McLintock and others; V. Sullivan and others; M. White aqd others; Noleen Millicent Liddy and others; Mary Keane and others; Maria Nicholls and others: K. W. Wallen and others; Patricia Noeline Goodwin and others; J. M. Connolly and others; Valerie Wright and others; William Thomas Scott and others; Margaret Hayes and others; and Margaret Steinmann and others.

Alter the weekly two hour general debate, Mr A. R. (Allan) Wallbank (Lab., Gisborne), tabled a report from the Primary Production Select Committee on the survey and lands estimates. Mr Noel Scott (Lab., Tongariro) tabled the report of the Education and Science Select Committee on the Methodist Charitable and Educational Trusts Amendment Bill and recommended it proceed as amended. Debate on the report back of the Nurse Maude District Nursing Association Amendment Bill from, the Social Services Select Committee by Mrs Judy Keall (Lab., Glenfield), was interrupted when the House adjourned for dinner at 5.30 p.m. After the House resumed at 7.30 p.m. the Nurse Maude District Nursing Association Amendment BUI was passed through its committee stages and set down for a third reading. Mr W. F. Birch (Nat., Franklin) moved the introduction of the Labour Relations (Flexible Bargaining) Bill as a private member’s bill. The bill’s introduction was refused after a 48-33 vote. Before an interrupted debate on the third reading of the Wages Protection and Contractors’ Liens Act Repeal Bill began, Mr R. J. S. Munro (Nat., Invercargill) moved that the bill be sent back to a select committee. The motion was lost, 32-48. Mr Munro then moved an amendment delaying the third reading by three months.