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Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 321, 19 July 1907, Page 3

"It is not considered desirable to compel the lighting of wheelbarrows and perambulators." This startling announcement requires a little explanation. The new law drafting department has made an innovation in the way of attaching a memorandum to all Bills introduced in Parliament 1 giving a summary of their provisions, etc., and the sentence quoted above is ■ taken from the memorandum attach- ' ed to the Lamps on Vehicles Bill (Mr > Major). Mr McKenzie protested : against this stupidity — " an insult to 1 the member who introduced the Bill" ' he called it. If the Government was employing a law draftsman at £1000 Kr year ne or his officers should not allowed to act "the tomboy." The . thing should not be tolerated for one > instant ,and he hoped the Premier ; would take due notice of the mat- . ter. In urging that the salaries of mcmi bers of the Upper House should be , the same as those of members of the i Council yesterday, the Hon. H. Scot- . land said it would matter little to him whether his motion was agreed L to or hot. "Whether lam alivg , or not next year," he said, " I have . decided that my place here will know toe no more. Before I leave I would . like to see an end put to what I , consider a great injustice." An unfeeling Council killed the discussion i by agreeing to "the previons quesl turn. : Woods' Gnat Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails. Is 6d . andfc&l. It is now in full swing is the Great Winter Sale at the Bon . Marche. 28 Days' Genuine Bargain I Giving in all departments. Extraj ordinary slump in the prices ol Mantles, Coats, Skirts, Costumes, and s Millinery. Messrs Spence and Spend being determined to olear them all . oat regardless of cost.