IN THE HOUSE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12569, 2 August 1901, Page 5

IN THE HOUSE.

[From Ocr Cobrsspondskt.] =■: WELLINGTON, August 1. Local Bills got to the front during tie •■•- afternoon, and many got past the second l reading, amongst them the Ttmpleton Do- .... main Board Empowering Bill. Mr Russell. supported 'his motion for the second' reading , ■- '.'very carefully. In the early days of Can- \ ? terbury provision: was mad© for repreation ,- (■ grounds for the people. Templetoa Ixad one l of tnese, and wanted more for the populous.*;:; districts that had grown, up in, the •\icralty, .\ such as Yaldhurst and Hoftiby. There was- -, an accumulation in the hands of the Domain : • Board of a rather valuable endowment of '- - some £3OO. This the Board proposed to .:; devote to the above purpose, and not to , . spend the money without the consent of theMinister of Lands. The necessity for - ; satisfying the Minister as to th& locality of ' - the land purchased would be the safeguard . . of the local and general interest, from , - which it will be seen that experience . ■■ maketh the old member of Parliament wary, and circumspect where a local Bill u con- . cerned. The House approved, and read the. . Bill a second..time without further com- ; ment. Local Bills kept possession, for tj».< ; whole afternoon. :„„!a«'' '" The "Report of the Royal Commission. ,_ on the staffs of schools aad salaries of publie _ school teachers" was laid on the tat He. ■ In the other House the Refermdultt Bjl , was worried through, another stage or its-, precarious Ufa. Eminent doctors say-it can-. . not possibly Hve another twenty-four lam. .