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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 255, 14 October 1911, Page 5

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I’.l SINESS THAT IS TO (!() THROLGH. FARMERS BAN K BI LI.. 11l I EI.EdtAHH SPECIAL. ] <( tun Corresiwindent.) Wellington. Oct. 11. Wtiile making his statement to the Hoii'o of the business he intends to put thtt.ugh I his st ssioti. Sir Joseph Ward t r fi red to the Farmers' Bank Bill which, he ‘aid. was a very important measure. He proposed that the bill should be read tl second time this session rind lie completed next year. The Bill require.- the bringing into operation of a great deal of machinery. and in anv case the mea* nre could not <-ome into exist ence for seven or eight months after it had passed through Parliament. For that rearm lie proposed later on to explain the Bill, and give the countrv the opportunity of consider ing it before it was placed on the* Statute Book.

COMPULSORY LAND SALE BILL A hill would lie introduced enabling the Government to acquire lands for settlement at a fair value and he propost d to ask the House to pul r through this session. LOCAL ELECTION POLLS. Another Bill that he proposed to put through dealt with polls at local elections. It had been pointed out that in the larger centres particularly a number of people wh.i were entitled to vote congregated in t polling booth jitsi before clos.ng ti’tit and were unable io obtain their bat lot papers before the hour of closing. The result was that a < insiderablc number of people entitled to vote were not able to vote merely because they had not been able to arrive earlier at tlie polling booth. The proposal was that every elector who was in the booth when the hour of closing arrived should be given a ballot paper and allowed to exercise his vote.

Mr. Russell: At New Brighton the trouble was there was not enough ro *:n to hold the people. Sir Joseph said he did not see anv way in vrliieh they could get over that difficulty, but he would look : nt > the matter anil see if there was any way in which they could gel ov < r the difficulty. Mr. Buchanan : Would that not cneoi’.rage a g:u>d many people being lattr than usual in arriving al the pi 11. Sir Jo. eph : It mav do so. Tinhen. gentleman will see that if people arrive late they will not be able to get int > the polling boot'' What the Lili proposed. li° ad lc'L was that electors wh> were in the booth .at the time of the closing of rhe p H shizald be given the opportunity of voting. Mr. J. I’. Luke asked whether *i: ■ bill w mid deal with tin* second ballot. "Xt-." said Sir Joseph Ward ’ ! ■lcri’t prop..re t<. deal with lieom! ballot. If the lion, gent’eim n l>->* anv proposal t.< make be c.au <lc when the bill is before the Hoitsi'. Mr. Luke: Very likely I will. Sir Joseph: I shall probably lee' it tnv iliily to oppose it.