PARLIAMENT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 675, 27 November 1909, Page 7

PARLIAMENT.

ABOUT INFECTIOUS DISEASES. [i• v|t"■ 7f.;"'4• Sy --Cl'.v t-;- -->^1 GUARANTEED ADVANCES. 1 , A MINISTERIAL REVERSE. ' ."-LAND SETTLEMENT, FINANCE. ■ , The Council held a short sifting yesterday, ®nd adjourned till.• Tuesday. Tho outstanding ' event in the House was tho defeat of tho Gov:Ss.;*ornment,. by/27 votes to 25,; on; tho Prime Ifin- ' ..ister's 'motion to reyoko tho alteration to tho State .-.Guaranteed.'Advances Bill, earned on . • amendment the- previous day, by ' . which local bodies wore given of their Bmkihg,.iuhds jn 'connection with- loans not guaranteed by tho State. Tho Prime Minister's, :• motion, to recommit tho Bill in order that thijr plauso might-, bo filrther considered; was .. adopted by 31 votes to 20, but on the crucial division ;tho: Prime,. Minister's proposal to -re--j.' .'• . Btore'-'-the.'clause to its original form was do--feated.'Tho 1 Hospital Instituj©; ;; ;Bili;'im^finally;pas^f, : and •',> the/Prilho' Minister niovbd tho second reading is- i-'Otp/of ;,tho/Land;;Settlement Finance BiU, ,whichj.i' r' V : .\yas L ;: coirr iieel, y aft6r • in : .interesting ; disonssioiij after. 2.30 a.m. Tho House will sit again on . . -'Monday, afteraoon. -. ,•

THE COUNCIL. , deathsi Vrom infectious diseases. EAELIEE EEGISTEATION DESIEED. "Whon the: Xegislativo . Council resumed its ... ; .. litting.yesterday afternoon, ' ~ : .; ■ -:.Ther Hon. Dr.- COILINS moved' that a Select ;iiCommittice-:be^ ; aj>i)oiiite(l to inquire into i the matter of tho registration of births and deaths, ; ; . and: to report'to . the Council 'on the samoj iho committeo to-consist of ;the .Hons: Colonel Baillife, Carncross,;Georgo, Luke, Paul,' Sinclair, ' iand. the mover; with power to call fOr porsons, palers/^^nd-'records,'audita;report within -four- ' . . teon days. 'Ho statod that a 6imilar committer •s. " ; was,'sot up , in'- Soptemter,; 1903, but it was fonnd at tno end ot tho session: that the committea was: not .m a .position .to bring down a fopOrt. He, theroforo proposed that the i; , .- 4 ,'. matter, should again como Tiofore a pommittee, ; -. ■.. whlth wooli roquird to report within fourteen ■fv: >; days. Begistranon of death should bo < mads Mi#:iwithin a;shorter.period than wai now in'force.-' ptesont .System; -.the goods l and Offects - "of.persons who died.of: infectious,disease, were oftentimos sold at auction before the death was registered. ' A]veiee: It is a shame. Dr, Findlay Favours tho Proposal. \The ; ATTOBNET-GENEEAL said it was , ' gratifying to:find'that, tho mo7er and other hon. • :.."'.v v gontlomeri -wore taking -an.interest iA. this im- ' 'poi'tant question.; l'hero ,was. a. difference befc:.'::.S'^twoen^V6Uch*';di^ases::Aas AOonsumpti»ri ; ':and"ordinary diseases which: did. not • expose the ■ eominuhity sto: infection.; It might be very difiloult; indeed to;apply the requirement of ... early - registration lof -deaths- in scattered por- - • tions of the Dominion., To require that to take ... v...-.'plaee-in' every caso;.of death would be -imprac- ■ j- ■> tieable.- Still the committee might well co*-. ■ eider,the prudence' .of . early • registration ,nf . deathi'iven -if; it jdidt entail ■ hardship in. , eases : whefti ,tho :cointhaiity: : ;:mi^hl:j:'be' l ':oiposed:-' to :^'r v . , '.: ! dangei. , ; J ';Any.-re6ommendauon, ; :wou]d.:nave .the. eafnesf eonsideration'of-tho Government. , , The Hon. W.'' W. M'CAItDLE (Auckland) ;' ; hold .that-.tho; motion- touched merely, the fnngo • .' .'of- : tho' subject, 'l'here . was -.more.fdanger- to '.-.vrthe'-'comniiinitj'; in -peoplo -dfflicted^with.;infetf■;\V:V.:.itious,disease;^travellingsabout in tram'cars.and. ■■■;,! 1 Wellinnion Meat Shops Discusscd. . ■ ■"■iT6eVHon..G;! JONES (Otago) referred tA:tho ) risk.'of. disease l assa. result, ot meat being ex- : . vposOd'.outsido.-;butchers' '-shops.':- Not Only -was A V-*"«>^h®^fnsfc- i df but i i.v,.' ; as a. result -of; dogs '.interfering'-with ~tho meat. .- Only, the-'olher day. he had seen an army of :a';Bhopin :!^'.''v.;: '';.Wellingtob/:'i.l , his're-VTras:'nb , ' ; .%stf.':passihff i -''any •S'V;Sr^uttTOi;'ft^th6H^^th''^^rlm((iiit : !;did : ''ndt' put.:a'- stop'to such a menace to public 1 health i • • as-that to which ho had referred.

v -Hon. T. Kelly : You can't stop the flies from flying about. ;; .Tho.-;Hon. ,■ O; M..-LUKE.: (Wellington) doRelated that .lio' had: nover seen an army of ■it:.fliei? in >a meat shop- m ..■ The Hon. G. Jones: I will show yon to- • m&xr.ow'- if 'you. like. -. : The Hon. .0. 11. Luke: The meat shops in Wellington will compare with any in -- tho' world, , The Hon. IVK. MACDOftALD (Wellington) BtiW-ithat:"more:>money:.,wa3 ..spent- in .■fitti-, '. v'P^TOP'fcshops'ihere^than;-in'-tay.partl'ofJthe ,V~ Continent, or.Home';. Country', ; which he; had visited. ' TJio.. Hon. GjvJohm: .That. is tho case, in ■.regard: to ; .ono...orvtwo, bnt the others are miserable rookexies, : i\:,■-■:.'. : V: ;''-v ■' :,, ..The motion- was -agreed to. " ■ I■The- Council-adjourned until Tuesday after.- . noon.\ ■ .---. .. . .. ...