YESTERDAY’S PARLIAMENT

Evening Star, Issue 18045, 12 August 1922, Page 8

YESTERDAY’S PARLIAMENT

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Leave of absence for two weeks, on account of illness, was granted the Hon. E. W. Alison. Tho Lands Committee recommended that the Surveyors’ Institute and Board of Examiners Bill should be allowed .to proceed without amendment., The Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Bill was received from tho Statute Revision Committee, which recommended minor amendments. The urinoipal one proposed that local bodies who have already raised antecedent liability loans should have the right to add the tost of raising such loan, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The Rotorua Borough Bill passed its final stages. In the committee on the Land Tax (annual) Bill in schedule, Mr Witty (on behalf of Mr M‘Galium) moved an amendment which would have tho effect of making tlho Government reduction in supertax apply to tho estates of a less unimproved value than £20,000, but not to apply to _ estates over that value. The Prime Minister _ resisted the amendment, which on a division was defeated by S 3 votes to 15, with 10 pairs on either side. The Bill was reported from committee without amendment, read, a third time, and passed. In moving tho second reading of the Swamp Drainage Amendment Bill, the Minister of Lands (Mr Guthrie) explained that it authorised taking money from tho swamp drainage account for tho improvement of Crown land not in a swamp drainage area., provision being made for the repayment of the money so used. The second reading was carried without debate, and the House rose at 8.30 p.m. till Tuesday afternoon.