PARLIAMENT
TODAY'S PROCEEDINGS
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
The Legislative Council met at 2.30 p.m. today. In moving the second reading of the Harbours Amendment Bill the Minister of Education (the Hon. E. Masters) said that the Bill embodied certain remits passed at the last annual conference of the Harbour Boards' Association. There were also provisions bringing harbour boards into line with other local bodies. Referring to the provision giving power to charge dues on whaling ships, Sir Francis Bell said hs agreed that the exemption should be abolished, but in view of .the fact that whaling ships might; have entered into contracts on the assumption that they were not liable for dues, and might be.unfairly penalised if the clause was made operative immediately, he suggested that it should be postponed for six months.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 144, 15 December 1933, Page 11
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131PARLIAMENT Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 144, 15 December 1933, Page 11
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