PARLIAMENT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 74, 9 March 1933, Page 7

PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EDUCATION AMENDMENT BILL. REMOVAL EXPENSES OF TEACHERS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Parlt. Buildings, March 9. The House of Representatives met at 10 o'clock. The Waitangi Endowment Bill and the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Bill were put through committee without amendment. The committee stage of tlie Education Amendment Bill thou commenced. The Rt. Hon. (1. Vv. Forbes stated that in the case of transfers of teachers on account of over-scale salaries removal expenses would be paid by the department. The teachers themselves would not be called upon to bear this cost. The House was still dealing with the Education Amendment Bill in committee when the adjournment was taken at 1 p.m. AMENDMENTS TO EDUCATION BILL By Telegraph—Press Association Parliament Bldgs., Mar. 9. Amendments to the Education Amendment Bill were introduced into the House of Representatives this morning by tho Rt. lion. G. W. Forbes. One amendment permits education boards, without the approval of tho senior inspector, to refuse to appoint female married teachers where their term of service as required by the regulations has been completed. Mr. Forbes pointed out that tho fact to be considered was not the teacher’s qualifications or fitness, but her financial position, and this could be decided by the board without consulting the inspector. Through a misunderstanding it was proposed to empower school committees to suspend teachers for neglect of duty, but the clause is to be amended to confine school committees’ authority for suspension to cases of immoral conduct or gross misbehaviour. The provision for the compulsory enrolment in special classes of subnormal children has been modified to provide for a special prior examination by the school medical officer. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. FINANCE BILL; SECOND READING. By Telegraph—Press Association. Parlt. Buildings, March 9. The Legislative Council met at 10.30. Speaking on the second reading of the Finance Bill the Hon. M. Fagan urged that legislation should be introduced to relieve the position with respect to some 27 State superannuitants who had vastly overdrawn the amounts they had paid into the funds. A return presented to the Council had shown that these men had paid in a total of £26,618 and had already drawn out £152,658. They were still drawing out on the same scale and some of them were holding down other positions when there were 70,000 men out of employment. Another ciass which should be dealt with was the “highest branch of the Justice Department.” The judiciary had been subject to salary reductions in England and Aus. tralia and in view' of the fact that the New Zealand branch had not seen fit to accept a voluntary reduction he suggested that compulsion should be employed. The Hon. J. A. Hanan said that provision was made in the Bill fit the establishment of a silver coinage and he hoped that the Government did not have in mind a managed currency. The Hon. R. Masters: It has no bearing on it.

Mr Hanan: 1 am glad to have that assurance.

He considered that there were inherent dangers in any system of managed currency and that eventually the principal countries would return to the gold standard. Sir Francis Bell said he had objected over and over again to “rubbish being put in finance bills.” Technically it was most important that amendments to legislation should be brought about by amendments to the original Acts and provision in a finance bill for a fine to which a masseur was liable if_ she did not have a certificate was an irregularity which amounted to impropriety. The Bill was put through the remaining stages and passed and the Council adjourned at 12.50 till 2.30.