LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 50, 27 August 1920, Page 4

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

YESTERDAY'S BUSINESS

The Licensing Amendment Bill (Hon. J. Barr), tho- provisions of which wera, explained in yesterday's Post, went through Committee in the Legislative Council yesterday afternoon without amendment, was reported, read a third time, and passed. The third reading of the Bills of Exchange Bill (formerly the Law Amendment Bill) wiia moved, by the- Hon. J. MacGregw, who saidl that his object was to make tbra decision of the House ofl Lords on this matter the law in Now Zealand. The Bill lays it down : "Thai where a banker, in good faith, and without negligence, pays a. cheque drawn! upon a bank, and the cheque has been so drawn as to afford facility for the fraudulent alteration of the amount thereof, and the cheque has been so fraudulently altered, the bank shall not. incur any liability by reason of its having paid the cheque." The third reading was carried', and! the Bill passed. - \

Tho Hon. J. MacGregpr gava notice! to move : "(1) That in th© opinion of this Council section 11 of the Industrial smd Conciliation Act, 1308, which prevents loyal, patriotic, and v moderate workers from forming industrial unions under-t-hat Act, and paragraph (c) of section 2 of the Act, which empowers the Court to grant preference of employment to members of industrial unions, should be repealed, on the ground that .the combined effort of such enactments is to compel workers to become members' o:E ai union as a condition of employment, to prevent workers; wBo join a union from! takingl any interest in its affairs,' andl to make a few extremists who are neither loyal nor patriotic to dominate the unions, and so cause, constant unreat; (2) all provisions in awards and industrial agreements made under this Act wMch give preference of employment to members of one industrial union should, be amended."