PARLIAMENT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 311, 25 September 1908, Page 9

PARLIAMENT.

j THE ARBITRATION BILL COMMITTEE STAGE COMPLETED DOMESTIC SERVANTS- • ' the judiciary bill. . In'the Council yesterday the Judiciary Bill'was md ■ « second time, and referred to , the Statutes Revision Committee, th« Attorney-General hating indicated that th« Government , wbnld not ask> ParWment to pass it this: session.. Tho Manawatu Railway ''Bill'was" put'-through 1 its final'- stages. The tiro ' Brigades . Ari/endment Bill wn put through Comnntteß.'jTho Police Oftraces .Amendment Bill was ■ read .a. second time on tho motion of tho Hon. Dr. Findlay, who forecasted important' : amendments to .be moved liter. Ono or, to other measures were .advanced a stago, and tho Farriers Bill ;at last got "into i Committ-eo and tho original title was struck out, but progress wh.s.- ; reported , beforo' .tho new ono was adopted. The Bill is therefore for tho present nameless. The Attorne.v-J?.e-ncral gave notice of a number of neiv Bills - Tho; House spent the wholo of the afternoon discussing tho Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act Amendment Bill, and in adopting, in Committee, various new clauses. One: of these clauses was - the exclusion of domestic servantsjn private employ from tho operation, of the, Bill, which was easily adopted.' In .. the' evening the consideration of the new clauses was continued, and the Bill was reported at 11.30 o'clock.