PARLIAMENT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 88, 10 October 1912, Page 8

PARLIAMENT

TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS : LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL The Legislative Council met at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon. The Leader of the Council (Hon. H. D. • Bell) asked . leave to move without notice that the Council places on record its high sense of the services rendered to the Legislature of the Dominion by the late Hon.. James Marshall, M.L.C., and respectfully tenders to his widow and family the assurances of its sin« cere sympathy in their bereavement. • In seconding the motion, Hon. 0. Samuel paid tribute to the faithful and unostentatious work in committee and otherwise of tho deceased member, who had had always a special regard for the settler and for West Coast matters. Hon. W. Beehan spoke sympathetically to tho, motion, which was carried unanimously. The Statutes Revision Committee reported having considered the Justice of tho Peace Amendment Bill, and recommended it be allowed ito proceed with amendment The Joint House Committee recom* mended' that steps be taken to more effectually conserve the privileges of members with regard to the tearoom and other departments of Bellamy's. The Cemeteries Amendment Bill was read a third time, and put through its final stage* , HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The House met at 2.30 p.m. Mr. Vigor Brown gave notice to move S. motion censuring the Government for its action" in discharging a . number of co-operative workers on railway works. The Minister for Defence (Hon. J. Allen), replying to Mr. G. W. Russell, said he proposed"* to move the second reading of the Defence Amendment Bill to-day, and adjourn the committal of the Bill until Tuesday, so as to give members an opportunity of considering the proposals. The Prime Minister remarked, incidentally, that he^Jipped to be able to move the second reading of the Land I3ill on Tuesday. That would probably mean the postponement of the committal of the Defence Bill until Wednesday. Mr. Poland asked if it was afact that work is to be stopped on the Waihi-Tau-ranga railway works, so &b to enable the men employed there to be employed in the Waihi mines. The, Minister for Public Works gave the rumour an emphatic denial. Mr. .Vigor Brown wanted to know why the Minist6r had closed down the East Coast -railway works at the Napier end. The Minister said the member for Napier had already given notice of motion on ,the subject, and it would be answered in due course. (Left sitting).