BILLS POSTPONED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 317, 1 February 1922, Page 2

BILLS POSTPONED.

deferred till next session. (For Press Association.) WELLINGTON, .Inn. 31. The Workers’ Compensation Amendment Bill, promoted early in the session by Mi ,J. E. Howard, was brought before the Mouse of Representatives to-day by the , Labour Bills Committee, which recommended that the Bill should he given considora- , lion when the proposed consolidating mea- i <nro was proceeded with next session. Sir John Luke, chairman of ihc committee. said the committee was prepared to , deal with the Bill in the usual way, but it had received an assurance from ihc Aimi.sU,r of Labour (hat he proposed to bring down a consolidating measure next' session, übep Ibe points raised in Mr Howards Bill would be considered. _ , ,’dr I Iowa) d explained bis I.ill. m debit, and said the principal clause was that aholill.' law ol common employment. lit; claimed diai in ibis he had die support 01, Sir .Tolln Sahuond, who spoke of the system |ei iiicions, and one which should he wip'd out. Mr Howard argued that opposilion to the proposal to abolish die law j ~1 common employment was owing to t“j I| dial the insurance companies wonltl pot accent risks, and not because it was honestly ‘believed that the principle was '’The report of die committee was laid on ■ ill.' T} k . |l)oiir rolls ( onmiilldc recoinup lull'd dun the Ranters’ and Decorators M,,aid: Rroleciion Bill should he hronght ini nt>x( session. j Sir John Luke said (ms course was si - . , I because of the pressure o) lime. He il, ought the Bill would gel a good rim next M‘'si‘l!l lit . \li‘ \\ A. Void'll coisloiidoil that an cilent non-poisonons siil.siilnn* tor while i„ paint had been found, and steps di'tnld lie taken to prohibit the use of white lead in paint as it was a menace to Ihe lieahh, not only of dm painlers. but of tin occupants of houses in which it was n.-mu as a paint. \j,. Howard supported the contentious of Mr Vciich and gave a large number ol ,|,.tails as to the ell'ecl ol lead poisoning I hc I'cporl. ol dm committee w;is ordered I p, lie on die table. j in, behall of die Labour Bills ( ommillee. Sir John Luke ■baled dial the committee bad corn" io die omclnsion dial die I ncmploved Bill was io some extent, a,, appropriation Bill, and should he re drafted before it could he considered •>> ,! l( . Mouse. H introduced a new political principle" in New Zealand, namely, the iv,vmeii( ol unemploved, and would requite a" 'good deal of ear, fid consideration. ,\lr R. Eraser, who introduced the Bid. „.„hl Vis based on that introduced by 'die Queensland Labour Government, hut he recognised that the conclusion nl the committee Ibid the. Bill was an appropriation Bill was just. At die same ume, the Mouse should not adjourn until some pro \ivioii was made to cop" with the unemployed problem. Personally, he dreaded I'.nhi" another winter with unemployment aj rampant as it was last, year. The payi„i■ „i of unemployed, though new to New Zealand, was not lII,' inosl impoilant tea imc of die Bill, the fundamental principle of which was the right to work. The report was ordered to lie on die