POLITICAL POINTS

Evening Star, Issue 21582, 30 November 1933, Page 16

POLITICAL POINTS

PETITION FOR COMPENSATION [From Our Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, November .29. Having been released from Mount Eden Prison early this month on a writ of habeas corpus, the nineteen-year-old girl, Annie Lillian Matheson petitioned the House for £1,050 compensation for wrongful imprisonment, and asked that her name bo expunged from the criminal records of New Zealand. In her petition, a lengthy document recapitulating the details of the court proceedings at Auckland on November 4, she described how she had been wrongfully imprisoned on two occasions, and been convicted by the Children’s Court, Auckland, on two occasions in her absence, without being given the opportunity to seek legal assistance, or call evidence in rebuttal of the charges. The petition will be investigated by the Public Petition’s Committee. • * • • EXCELLENT PROGRESS. Excellent progress was made in the House when six Government Bills were passed. They were the Scenery Preservation Amendment, the Egmont National Park Amendment, the Orchard Tax Amendment, the Local Authorities’ Interest . Reduction, and Loans Conversion Amendment, the Royal Society of New Zealand, and the Weights and Measures Amendment Bills. The Moneylenders’ Amendment, and the Co-operative Pig Marketing, and Companies! Bills were each given the second reading, the latter being referred to the Agricultural and Stock Committee, and the former being delayed to permit the introduction of some slight amendments. The Poultry Runs Registration Bill commenced its committee stage, but members were inclined to treat it lightly, those who spoke seriously on the subject being the butt for interjections of more or less humorous nature. Before the. Short Title was passed, the Minister in Charge. (Mr Macmillan) moved to report progress to enable the third reading of other measures to take place. Discussion on the Bill will probably he resumed next week.