YESTERDAY'S PARLIAMENT
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. The Tariff Agreement (New Zealand amt Australia) Ratification Bill, the Naval Defence Amendment Bill, and the Land Drainage Amendment Bill were pat through their final stages and passed. Tho Statutes Revision Committee reported on the Rotorua Borough Bill, with minor amendments. HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES. Mr Savage asked) leave to introduce the Motherhood Endowment Bill, which, ha explained, proposed to legalise in this country a basic wage which was calculated on an average family consisting of a wife and two children. Provision was also made for a family, larger than the average, and he proposed to give an endowment of Kfe per week for every child above two and under fifteen years. The administration of, the Bill would be in the hands of the Minister of Pensions, and questions of interpretation would be settled by the Arbitration Court. Finance for the BUI of course, involved) taxation. This must be made to fall on those who could bear it. There was also provision in the Bill for the maintenance of children ■who were not under tho charge of their parents, or whose parents were unworthy, and wider powers were taken to meet varying conditions by means _of regulations Ho moved that tho Bill be introduced and read a first time.
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Evening Star, Issue 18050, 18 August 1922, Page 1
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