THE SESSION

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9825, 2 October 1924, Page 5

THE SESSION

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

LENGTHY LIST OF RETURNS ORDERED.

AVELLINGTON, Oct, 1

Notice of intention to introduce the Aleut Export Control Amendment Bid and the Dairy Produco Export Control Amendment Bill was given by the HOll. AV. Nosworthy.

The following returns were ordered to be prepared for presentation to the House: Amounts invested on totalisator for each of tho last four racing years, the return to show tlie amount of increase or decrease each year and the percentage of increase or decrease (Air Williams); the number of convictions under .the Licensing Act for the period Ist April 1919 to 3st March 1924 in the King Country proclaimed area and the amount of fines paid during the-same period (Air J. C. Rolleston); the conditions under which boy immigrants are placed with farmers in the Dominion, the period of training and the. provisions, if any, for placing them on the land after their period of training has been completed (Air McKecn); tho number of charges and convictions for offenders for drunkenness and the number of persons so convicted under twenty-one years of age, also the number between twenty-one and twenty-five and the number above twenty-five years of ago in each no-licenso district from Ist. January to 3rd December 1923, and the quantity and kind of liquor sent into each 110-license district from tlie Ist January to the 31st December 1923 (Mr .Lsifct); detailed particulars of accidents to employees of New Zealand railway service for each of the years ended 31st March 1921, 1922, 1923, and 1924; return to show separately (1) the number of accidents (2) whether (a) fatal (b) serious and (c) minor (Mr Smith); (lie total amount of hospital fees in each hospital district remaining unpaid for tho year 1911 to 1923 inclusive (Mr Masters) ; the number of warders who have left thch service of their own will sinco 1912, the number dismissed since 1912, and the number of prison officers who have left and joined the police force since 1912 (Mr (Lee); profits from sale of railway time table last year, and how such profits were disposed of (Mr Atmore); the amount of war funds in hand at the inception of the AVar Funds 'Council, the amounts_ now in hand, and the amounts paid in salaries to war funds officials, both departmental and AVar Funds Council (Mr Atmore); tho amount of interest paid up to- 1 31st March 1924 on war debt and tlie total amount of interest that tho State will have to pay up to tho time of repayment of tho said debt (the Hon. J.’ A. HananJ. The amendments made .by the Legislative Council in the Copyright Act Amendment, extending tho provision to British protectorates and mandated territories were agreed to. PATENTS AND TRADE MARKS AMENDMENT BILL.

AVhen tho House resumed at 7.31) tho Hon. O. J. Parr moved tho second reading of the Patents Designs and Trade Marks Amendment Bill. During the course of his spee_cli lie explained that this legislation was part of a movement to secure' uniformity in the matter of patent law throughout the British Empire, lhe new clause renders conditions less severe, the Registrar being empowered to restore or oxteml the time for taking action. Tho terms of the Bill are almost in strict conformity with tho British law, and were necessary to bring. ' about that uniformity, which was so much' desired by a recent conference on the subTho Bill was read a second time and referred to tho Statutes Revision Committee,—P.A«