PARLAMENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 27 August 1923, Page 7

PARLAMENT.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES!

(B* SKIiEGRAT-TT— PKJ3SB ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 27. In© iJouse-Miet at 11 o'clock Replying to Mr Poland, Mr Nosworthy said that the Dominion Boardl under the Discharged Soldiers' Settle-' ments Act had not yet been sot up, but everything was in train for it. I In moving for leave to introduce the' .legislative Reform Bill, Mr Sullivan explained that the Bill was designed to hnng the Legislative Council into the same relationship towards the House of Representatives as . the House of Lords now stod to the Commons under the Parliament Act, viz., a Bill, which passed the House three times should be automatically^ passed by the Council. The veto at present exercised by the Council, as exemplified by its refusal to admit women as justices of the peace and to grant full "civil and political rights was intolerable. Leave was given to introduce the Bill, which was read a first time. I The House then went into commit-■ tee on several local Bills. .. j (By Telegraph.—Special to the Star.) . WELLINGTON, .Aug. 27. The Premier having promised to reduce the taxation on small racing clubs, Mr Perelie asked the Government in the Houete to-day if it would keer> this j promise, as nothing had been done in j the Finance Act. j The Hon. W. A. Nosworthy' replied that the matter was one for'the Premier, and would not be overlooked. Mr Isitt: Then wo will be here next week ? Mr Nosworthy: That's my reply. The Hon. Mr Parr announced legislation next year improving the super-ann.-at'on of stneadiary magistrates.