LOCAL BILLS
BEFORE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES * The ! House of Representatives met at 7.30 p.m. yesterday. Ab soon as the formalities had been observed consideration of Local Bills was commenced. PATEA AND WANGANUI HARBOURS. The Patea Harbour Bill was considered in Committee. ■ Its chief object is to include 'in the harbour rating ai'ea a portion of the district which had, for th© purposes of the Bill, been excluded' from the operation of the Wanganui Har-bour-District and Empowering Bill, which latter is designed to enable the Wanganui Harbour Board to raise money for a large scheme of harbour development. Tho Patea Bill proposes authority to raise £86,000, and it passed Committee with the amendments made by the Local Bills Committee. It was then put through final stages. The Wanganui Bill proposed to; authorise the raising of a loan of £125,000 for harbour development purposes, and it came up for its final stages. In its progress through Committee a clause had been inserted, enabling tho board to impose differential dues in respect to various parts of the
district. The Bill was read a third time and passed. Tho Auckland Weekly Half-holiday Bill was debated at length, by way of stonewall, as reported elsewhere. Tho House rose at 4.42 a.m.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1913, Page 3
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