PARLIAMENT.
OLD AGE; PENSION ACT, ' AMENDMENTS WANTED. '.. MR. HOGG AND THE FLOUR DUTY. THE BANK-TO-BANK CLAUSE. ! -! A considerable portion, of ypsterday aftfir? noon iu tho House was taken up with a discussion on the .Old .Ago Pensions Act. The ■:1%. debate arose out of. a petition, :and the report v'~ -''thereon of-a cdlect . committee". The general itone;.; of:: the, .numerous' speeches', was that ?: v"pmoiidmertts,to .thd -Acf worp'very necessary. '. fouring the. remainder of tjip; afternoon inom^ ' bers; debated Ministerial replies to 'questions. Tiie evening'. \vas ? dovoted'to privato nieniteis' Bills. Mr. Hogg's Flour Duty Abolition Bill met its usual fate. Tlio discussion on Mr;- Gv.inness's "Homes;of Underground Worker's : Bill elicited a Ministerial/confirtnation of the promiso to introduco a npw and improved eight-hours'' bank-torbiink clauso, Tho.Bill, however, passed i'ts/second reading,' ns did also Jfr.- FisherV;Destitutc Pcrspns Amendment Bill, Mr. vWitty's.. Amendment Bill, and Sir William' Steward's Local Ejections Amendmcnt| Bill. .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 263, 30 July 1908, Page 9
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