HOUSE At WORK

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11324, 30 September 1930, Page 5

HOUSE At WORK

•NUMBER of bills dealt with

(Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Sept. 29. In the .House outlining , the Offenders Probation Amendment Bill, Sir Cobbe said the amendments to the Apt w'efe to ;prevent juvenile offend-’ ers whose names , were not published from being identified by the publication of other particulars. The chief probation officer would be given power) to extend the time allowed to a person on probation for the payment of any moneys due under tho terms of the, probation. \ There. had been cases where particulars which would identify, the offender had been published. The Bill was read a second time.

.In moving the I,second reading, of the Prevention of Crime (Borsta£ institutions establishment) Amendment Bill, Mr Cobbe said that it would make provision .for maintenance to be paid where an offender had dopendants and also for the arrest of escapees, without having to bring a charge as a rogue and vagabond as at present. Mr 11. E. Holland said that the time was coming when Borstal inmates and men in gaol with dependants would be required to do sufficient work to support those dependants.

Mr Cobbe, in reply, said ho was glad to _ see that members approved of the proposed. The Bill was read a second time. .-Mr Cobbe moved the second; reading of the Coroners Amendment Bill and said jt would give power to re T open the inquest and provide for the (holding of an inquest in certain eases where the body was not recovered and give power to the coroner, to order burial before the inquest.

Mr MacMillan (Taurahga) said that when the Bill was in committee he would move an amendment enabling an inquest to be re-opened also on .the application of the next df kin of a deceased person, • including a safeguard against previous application.

Moving the second reading of the Births and Deaths Amendment, Bill Mr Perrelle said provision was made for. -the omission the word “illegitimate’’ from a _ certificate of birth of illegitimate children. This would remove a stimga which unfortunately followed undeserving people through life. Another amendment for the registration of deaths of New Zealand naval forces occurring outside the Dominion.

Fear was experienced by some members that if the Bill were passed thero would be no legal distinction between legitimate and illegitimate births. A point was where the disposition of estates was concerned

Mr. Perelle replied that in English law no provison was made for wediock and it would be quite safe to follow that precedent The Bill was read a second time.

The House then went into committee on the ' Offenders Probation Amendment Bill, Prevention of Crime (Borstal Institutions Establishment) Amendment Bill; Coroners Amendment Bill and Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Bill. When the Coroners Amendment Bill was in committee 3lr MacMillan did not persist with bis amendment, the Minister stating that the very object of the Bill was the reopening of inquests where there was reasonable doubt. All four Bills were reported without amendment, read a. third time and passed. , ' . In moving the second reading of rbe Chartered Associations (Protection of Names and Uniforms) Bill, the Hon. P. Perrelle said that the purposei. of the Bill was merely to give girl guides the protection, afforded boy scouts. '1 he Bill was read a second time. Mr Ransom moved the second reading of the Incorporated Societies Amendment Bill and - said that the purpose of the Bill was to remove the restriction which required a membership of 500 before an incorporated soeietv could incorporate its. branch societies. The Bill proposed to' fix : the minimum memOership oi the Branch at 15. The Bill was read a first time. , . Mr. Ransome moved the second reading of. the Statutory Lapd Charges Registration- Amendment Bill and said that charges to which the. principal Act were applicable would not be affected by prior purchase, the Bill was read a second time. Mr. Ransom also moved the second reading of the New Zealand Institute Amendment Bill and said that it-dealt with purely machinery matl#>The House then wont into committee and with the exception of the Statutory Land Charges B 11, the other measures, were reported t out amendment, read a thml t.me and passed. Progress was on the Statutory Land Charges - and the House rose.