DEPUTATION.S

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9998, 24 May 1895, Page 3

DEPUTATION.S

'" '"3V"E__r_*_.bN, Thursday.,, A deputatlo_"fromr the Carriers' Ui iob waited on_.the_ Premier, urglDg exten ded franchise in .lection of members of the Harbor Board -and City Council, The Premier in replying aaid so far ns Ka frap.aware .the ptWfcfs, conferred by^Aci ofc'i Parliamen.* SP", .'s9, 'Bwmßwfr* iddministered/ "Minis :ers eornt-" lsea- ; very^clo'irty''-th6!'ti-tloos, of thelrappolntees, and had no fault to 154. with'-'thQltu.'. He' cOßftWerad. the u6puu_'-> tion bad reason to ask that those it re presented should hafre representqjiqp od the Board. The question was bhe'Orwir eiyj, ingfdSlie faaircbise. At present the nfiilcs/ •trf-mnnidpaHlies and of Haibor iSoirds were In the hands of a comparative small iiumber.of people, and thousand 3 of perßonswhowere really ratepayers wore not on the municipal rolle, and were co: iseqnently debarred from having assta t In local 1 goverqmeQt. With' al' View' to sorrect tkis in justice;' 'the Government '15,3,, tended next session to i>gciu iocrnduce thei MnnlcipaUtlesfA-bAmeDdmeutßill. The widening of the'ffancbUe was a ques lon for the consideration of the people th ;m---seives, and therefore he would eng [e.sA, thab membeiß of- the deputation ahi aid" approech theit-'city merabots and nHW tbem to snppOtttbe Government meae ire. Thp . J.^ler.ipoHiie d to the belief hat , fhj Harbor jßyardJsj se(yet^ry.ifjoald nott permit favoritism regarding carriers on 'tW wbgif ; ,bj}t ( , Bejtjii>pß. injustice iad been 'j6pirwl«<;aJ)yoSttbprdlnate officei^ ftj*d..,hgi added (.tb,a. • th&.fiovernment ti_,o--foandtnab tyrauqte»ha_r^qi',flf>inmi ted in its own departmei.tjivi."by officials ufoon juniors, and he bad deatb with casei of mm in believing tbey would _0t nay 3 to be repeated. A deputation conihtlng of Meisrs Stuckey ond Bldwell, well-known We irjj"*:* rapa residents, waited on tbe Minlstr r 'Of , Railways this ajter*sarj, that the speed of trains on the down gi ade between Summit and Kaitoki be redu *6V-' I as it was feared that an accident las'y I resnll should the -broke-. at jroy-tirne fall Ito act. The deputation pointed owt hot only recently in coming down the Ine the driver of a heavy train whistled for 3 brokeg,. ( »nd i ..a t train rQj^jWff a "Mb i c. foVai.-fe- vps'^ljrougW up. to the Minister, Mr j_toDayne, gen :ral manager, said that not a slDgle acc'u ent wag recorded oa that portion of the ioe ' fron* r_ll_»-> W 'brakes^ k-di'hdded hat only latelJ'We' sjiS-d 'fiad been Tedn ed, and that there waß a regulation as to tbe speed, which "IT exceeded by the dri er, tbe lotter was liable to instant dlsmls lall 1 - The Hon. Mr Cadman, while not adn IttIdr theio,vyaa-.ao!* danger f ally recogn aed that every precaution should be exerc se<_., against accident, -and be promised to | ivei the matter doe conslderatiop. "'" A deputation representing nnemplo red compceitors waited on the Colonial Se :re tary this af ternooo, urging that dvi i_g 7 . the approaching session of Parliao ent; their claims for employment In tho t overDUienb Printing Office should be reiog-, nised. jjpypr^s .fit hO men, most of" whom .rare pbnu /J-VV-sfcnts, were I lie, r and it Wi\a\nieef'. tbat "they shoald fee Before '-Wldefe. 1 - Sir P_ti ick Buckley asked "the deputation to sab nit .their. views in v.riting, and. aald jj full inqafr/Lw'dulcl be made* "_ ' '