PARLIAMENT. TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1909, Page 8

PARLIAMENT. TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, The Council met at 2.30. The Imprest Supply Bill was received from House and put through all its stages wiLhout discussion. Leave of absence was granted to ths Hon. J. Holmes for the remainder of the session owing to ill health. It was agreed that the Council should meet on Monday next at 2.30 p.m. The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Bill was further qonsiclered in committee. Clause 72, which was postponed yesterday, was further considered in committee.' The clause gives boards power to make agreements for special terms as to maintenance in hospitals of members of friendly societies. The Hon. Dr. Collins again attacked the clause, and said it was quite inappropriately included in. the Bill, and was entirely opposed to the admirable spirit of the BiJI. An enormous amount of work was done gratuitously in Wellington. Besides doing a great deal of work at the hospitals on the honorary staffs, the doctors of Wellington attended, free of charge, to cases at the Ohiro Home, the Homo for tlie Aged Needy, Mother Mary Aubert's Home, the Home of Compassion, the Oipbanage in Hillstreet, St. Vincent de Paul's Society, the Presbyterian Orphanage, the Levin Home, the Salvation Army's Maternity Home, and Home for Boys and Girls, and perhaps others. The cfcruse was quite out of place in the. Bill. The Hon. J. R. .Sinclair agreed with Dr. Collins. (Proceeding.)