HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 87, 9 October 1935, Page 13

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

"-f The House of Representatives met it 2.30 pjn. today. The Rev. .C. Carr (Labour, Timaru) gave notice to ask the Minister of Justice whether he will look into the Prisonsl Department's growing habit of appointing acting superintendents instead of superintendents and stretch- ■.''■', ing the temporary office out for months ;-; '-and even years. "At the Girls' Borstal, Ti PoJnt Halswell," said Mr. Carr, "there Jhas been an acting superintendent for i-,-\5 ye years< At -Aldington Women's r' v , ? ef°rmatory a similar position is growr 'ing up, as also at Invercargill Borstal. ;.'rln such cases full responsibility rests >•',-.;! not with the officer but with the ceni' - tral department and of course salaries ;'-- are reduced." '•°.: The Minister of .Health (the Hon. J. ' r A. Young), gave Mr. W. BVoadfoot (Government, Waitomo) an assurance that when a scheme for the distribution of milk to schoolchildren was being instituted care would be taken to see that the milk did riot come from contaminated cows. '■■. : GOLD PROSPECTING. Mr. K. J. Holyoake (Government, Motueka) asked the Minister1 of Em(the. Hon. S. G. 'Smith) ■^ a whether, in view of the . increased '-V 3 rates granted to certain classes of rey. 'gistered relief workers, would he and Cn'£ the board give favourable considera-tt-'"tion to the granting of increased rates I": 3'"to subsidised gold prospectors? Aj""- The Minister replied that the ques"j tion of increasing the rate of subsidy :ly:ipaid to gold prospectors was carefully '•^considered in connection with the re -"■*' cent alteration of the relief basic rate. ""^ln view, however, of the fact that this :'f subsidy was only in. the nature of a <!■>: "grub stake" and that the men retained y''*c the gold which they won, the board decided that an increase in the subsidy H'-' would not be warranted,' "Gold pros- -< pectors were hot relief Workers in the ™ ordinary sense. ... ;. S4 Mr; J. A.. Lee (Labour, Grey Lynn) '• f'gave notice to ask the Prime Minister y'l (the Rt v Hon. G. W. Forbes) whether '■*- it was not .a fact that trustees not being allowed to buy Government Stock :' s at a premium had resulted in the last ■3", r issue of the Mortgage Corporation be- '"- ing practically a compulsory loan, ; Replying to a question asked by Mr. '3UA. S. Richards (Labour, Roskill), the :-'y Minister of; Employment (the Hon. S. '■^'G. Smith) said that in the past deduc- |" s tions were made from certain relief ■uo workers' earnings for the maintenance r'V of *heir dependants from whom they =s"-were separated. Experience had shown that representations made in support of an application for diversion of a relief worker's earnings did not always disclose the fullDosition, and that there was often present the risk "of a worker ? . being compelled to accept an obliga-■C-^tion which was not his in law. The board, therefore, decided that such cases could be more properly, dealt by the legal machinery provided for that; purpose:,; Deductions would v> ; still be made, where necesasry, pur- ,..., suarit to a Court-direction, and also"in ' . cases in which the worker consented -'to such a diversion, and in which it was '^considered that, in the interests of the ,: the execution of such r;) , agreement should be at the hands of ~;'• the board's officers. . .; .rf Moving for leave to introduce the •Rating Amendment Bill, Mr.-W...-P : .-Bni ~: dean (Government, Parnell) said the «',"}', Bill sought to amend the' principal Act permitting shops and offices vacated 'for six months or more to be exemptoj . ed from the payment of half the amount ,jj_pf rates due for the year in. the same .'".way that dwelling houses are exempted. '.' "* -(Proceeding.) ■