PARLIAMENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7833, 5 November 1903, Page 2

PARLIAMENT.

LEGISLATIVE' COUNCDL.

WEDNESDAY/ NOVEMBER 4. A number- of bills passed their final' 1 ' stages. "me Industrial Conciliation and Arbi' . tration Bill ,was under discussion 'when progri33 was reported, and the Council ■ adjerned to 5 p.m. ; , s HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: WEDNESDAY, , NOVEMBER 4. The House met at 2.30 p.m. 1 ' / Mr Kirkbride presented petitions protesting against amendments, in the licensing Jaw proposed by the new bill. . With regard to the petition of 450 residents'of Te Kuiti, who asked. that the in- , habitants of .the King Country may, .be granted the "same privileges with regard to licensed houses as are. enjoyed by the inhabitants of other parts of the colony, the ' Public Petitions Committee had no i recommendation to rriakej as there ' was ' legislation before the . House on the sub: ject. ' -' • ' <- ~ - Workers' Compensation for Accidents , Act Amendment Bill and Labour Department Bill weß3 reported from the Labours , Bills Committee with amendments: •-• REPLIES TO QUESTIONS. In reply to questions, Ministers stated that the fines imposed by the House oh A the publisher 'and reporter of , the New* Zealand Times have not 'yet been paid*; that advice had been , received that 'New Zealand oats are being landed at Durban in 'indifferent^ condition, presumably be.caus3 of being shipped in a damp condition, but the Produce Exports Bill, which' pro/dcs for compulsory Government grading of all grain exported from the colony! will overcome the difficulty and * ensure proper, testing arid grading of all grain for export; that data is being procured with a view to determining the titility of railway motor cars for the Newf Zealand Government railways ; • that there is no intention of amending the Land for Settlements" Act this session to allow'holders of ' leases in perpetuity to pay off the amount added to the .'capital value in the shapo of loading for road-making, surveying, etc. . " . • REFERENDUM. On , the motion that, the , amendments made in Committee on .the Referendum Bill be agreed to, there was a lorig^debali3, but the bill was t eventually put through its final stages. * ' ■ The House rose at 1.35. '• r