TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 139, 9 December 1918, Page 8

TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL The: Ijegjal«ttv© Council met at 10.30 The Hon. George Jonas asked the Government whether it woold seek to cstahlish *jbkh» effective control over patients in St. -Ating's Convalescent Hospital wfoo h»ve visited the publichouse bars and become inebriated and thus imposed painful duties upon nurses and other -attendants who were already overworked? :,.; , The. Leader of the Council (Sir Francis Bell) replied that he would have the matter inquired into, to see wbai could be done. The Hon. Gt. J. Garland gave notice to ask if the Government realised that interned Germans when liberated would be in danger, and whether it would arrange that they should be sent to their own country when peace was declared. The following local Bills were put through all stages without discussion: — Napier Harbour Board and Napier High School Empowering, Whangarei Borough Empowering, Thames Borough Boundaries Alteration, Dunedin City FishMarkets and Empowering, New Plymouth Harbour Board Empowering, Wairoa Harbonr Board Empowering and Loan. The Council adjonmed till an hour to be fixed.