HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1911, Page 3

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

The House continued its flitting alter The Poafc went to prese yesterday. STONE QUARRIES. Ths Stone-quairiesi Amendment Btu was put through finai etagea. AUCKLAND GRAMMAR SCHOOL. The Auckland Grammar &chwl Site Bill was rgad a 6ccofld time. EDUCATION RESERVES. The Minister for Education (H<ffl. O. ffowldsj moved the second reading of the Education Reserves Amendment Bill. The Bill, he said, gave leasing powers to High School Boards which are at present not properly defined, and that the rente derived from the leases should be devoted to the purposes of the several -schools.' Another provision was one giving 1 power .to .reserve site's and education reserves for primary, secondary, or technicft.. schools The mam object, ot the Bill waa that the full powers provided under the Public Bodies Leasing Act, 1908, should be given to High School Boards. Mr. Field, a«3 a member of the\ Board of Governors of Wellington College and Wellington Girle' College, welcomed the measure, and was glad to see that provision was being made for uniform exercise of powers by euch bodies. He urged that the Government should bring down a Bill to provide that wherever' land was out up, even by a private ifl* dividual, and thft area was co situated that a school was likely to be Tequired, the Crown, should have power to insist that a suitable school site should be set apart. The eecofld reading wa« agreed to after a brief debate. *" PATENT LAW. The Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Bill was recommitted, and amendments were, on thA motion of the Hon. 6. Fowlds, inserted providing for the revocation of patents registered in, but worked outeide, New Zealand after the lapse of four year«, where the court i« satisfied that the patented article or process is manufactured or carried on exclusively oi mainly outeide New Zea* land, then, subject to the provision*' of this section, and unless the patentee proves tfcat the patented aftkie or process is manufactured of carried on to an adequate extent in. New Zealand, or gives satisfactory reasons wjs the article c-r process is not so manufactured or carried on, the court shall make Ihe order applied for to take effect either forthwith or after such reasonable interval as may be specified in the order, unless in the meantime it is shown to the satisfaction of the court that the S>atented article_ or process is matmactured or carried on within New Zealand to an adequate extent. With this and some minor amendments the Bill was reported. The Hon&e rose at £.30 p.m>