POLITICAL NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15717, 9 September 1911, Page 9

POLITICAL NOTES.

[From Our Correspondent.] WELLINGTON, September 8. PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION. Released from tho sha-ckles of office, the Hon George Fowlds, ex-Ministei ] of Education, to-day gave notice-of his ] intention to introduce a Proportional < Representation Bill, the first private ( Bill ho has fathered for five years. LAKE COLERIDGE MAILS. i Mr Hardy has asked the Postmaster * General to consider the advisability of ’ extending the Glentunnel-Rakaia 1 Gorge mail service from Snowden to ( the Wilborforce Ford, so as to give £ reasonable postal facilities to men era- | ployed in the Lake Coleridge electrical i works and others employed in the 1 Rakaia Forks district. i A RISE IN WAGES. Recently Mr Ell learned that some employees of the State Coal Depot in Christchurch wore underpaid and he made representations to the Minister of Mines oil the subject, stating that some man were receiving no more than 453 a week. Tho Minister, after inquiry, admitted that the wages 1 were low and promised an increase. 0 1 USELESS ROADS. Tho Lands Committee to-day reported favourably on Sir William Steward’s Land Amendment Bill. The Bill provides that notwithstanding the fact that a man holds the maximum acreage he should bo allowed . either to purchase or lease a road line i t if not required for public use. Under i 1 the existing law this could not be done. The Committee suggested that the Government should bring in a Bill to give effect to tho proposal as some unused or closod roads ’yore simply growing noxious weeds. After considerable debate the report was laid on tho £ table. ===========