PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9434, 5 September 1907, Page 5

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

A BRIDGE WANTED. | [By Teleobaph.— Special io Stab.] WELLINGTON, September 3. JJir Jennings is to aak the Minister for Works whether, owing to the great in crease of traffic over the. Mokaiu Timer, I be will make provision on the Estimates for the erection of a bridge, thereby doing away with the out-of-date fewy service EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. Mr Okey v, moving for a return of the i receipts and expenditure of each experimental farm in the colony during the past five years. BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. WELLINGTON, September 4. Matters in connection with the Bank of New Zealand cropped up again to-day. Mr Poland wanted to, know whether tlhe. Treasurer was aware tlnajt thai manager of I lie bank at Auckland vas reported to have said that the Bank of New Zealand now had more money t!han it knew what to do witih, anu whether under ■the circumstances tho Minister did not think the bank should moke some reduction in j its cliarges to the public for banking services, i The reply was curt: .that tlhe matter rested with, the directom i Mr Ell wanted to know why the Gov. ! ernment considers it would be w!rong-to| purchase private shareholdieirs' interest iv j the Bank of New Zealand for the public whule tfcey consider it right to corapulsorily purchase freehold land, private gas and electric light worksi, etc. Sir Joseph Ward contended that the positions we're not analogous, and said the Government were not going to bring about financial dislocation throughout th* country, which, such propo&al if attempted at present would involve. PUBLIC SERVICE APPEAL BOARD. The Premier states that the Government is. considering the> question of. appointing an Appeal Board of a genernl character, to whiich any employe in the service cf the State might lvserjb in casehie' consiideied he was unfairly or unjustly totaled. It is contended that the principle of such an Appeal Beard is admitted in tho case of the Railway Diepartmeu!i and benchers. LUNACY AND CRIME. Mr Butherfond asked a long question of the Premier as to whether he had seen a certain extract from a provincial paper as to the alarming incaeas© of lunacy and crime since prohibition took place. The extract appended occupied nearly a page of printed foolscap. The Premier laconically replied: "Ye 3, the statement referred to had been reen." PETITION FOR A GRANT. The widow of the late Mr O'Meaira, menJbtr for Pahiatua, is petitioning Parliament for £500 on account of the public services- rendered by her husband. SMALL BIRDS. The question of the best mmris of destroying small bird pests is undeir cen sideration DUTY ON MACHINERY. Government representatives of dairying districts, including Mr Major, intend trying to get the collection of duty on vacuum pumps for milking machines put off until 30th November, by which time all now ordered will be installed.