HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 48, 30 July 1877, Page 2

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

;■ Wellington. July 28. The House resumed the debate o.u the Charitable Institutions .Bill at 730, lust night. I A number of speakers condemned the Dill oif the ground that it was unjust in principle in casting the support ot charitable fjnstitulious upon private benevoc lice :fi hat tho machinery provided by.

the Bill could never nchieve the object in . view ; that the work should be undertaken ( by the State, and if the revenue would < not bear it, then have recourse to an in* I come and land tax, I The speakers opposing the Bill were < Messrs Walls, Stevens (who moved that ' it bo mid that day six months), Kelly, < Ress, Travers, Wakefield, Lusk, Fisher, i and Sohrimski. i The members supporting the seoond • raiding were the Premier, and Messrs Gisborne, Ballance, Lumsden, Woolcock, Murray- Aynsley, Burns, and Uowe. They urged that the principle was sound, and , had worked well in other parts of the colony, besides other colonies ; that it would stimulate the benevolence and self- ! reliance of the people ; that the system of providing for these institutions by central authority was fraught with fatal consequences ; and that a poor law was demoralising. . I At 12.15 the Government resisted adjournment of the debate, and gained the point by 31 against 25. After, a couple more speeches, the House adjourned at 12.45, Government not opposing.