YESTERDAY’S PARLIAMENT

Evening Star, Issue 18051, 19 August 1922, Page 3

YESTERDAY’S PARLIAMENT

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Replying to Hon. H. M. Campbell, Sir William Fraser stated that the Government was carrying out its investigations regarding damage done by deer to farm crops and State and private plantations. Minor amendments, which were made by the Statute Revision Committee to the Rotorua Borough Bill were agreed to, and the Bill read a third time and passed^ The Surveyors’ Institute and Board Examiners Bill was also passed without amendment. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Speaking to the adjourned motion for leave to introduce Mr Savage’s Motherhood Endowment Bill, Mr Bartram, Dr Thacker, and -Mr M'Oalluxn announced their support to' the measure. The Hon. W. Nosworthy said some member's were prepared to support anything, no matter what financial burden it would impose. The Government was not unmindful of the needls of the poor, but it bad to be guided by financial conditions. Leave was granted, and the Bill introduced and read a first time. UNEMPLOYED WORKERS BILL. The Chairman of the Labor Bills Committee reported that the committee recommended that the Unemployed Workers Bill (Mr Fraser) bo not proceeded with, as it was an appropriation measure. Mr Fraser appealed- to' the Government to go into the unemployment problem and bring down legislation as early as possible to deal adequately with it, so that by next winter men in seasonal occupations would have less cause for apprehension. The report was tabled. WASHINGTON CONFERENCE. The evening sitting was taken up with the Prime Minister’s motion for ratification of Sir J. Salmond’s Washington Con- j Terence Treaty report. This will be found i reported elsewhere.