PARLIAMENT.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. ARMS AMENDMENT BILL. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Nov. 6. The Legislative Council met at 2.30 to-day. The Arms Amendment Bill and the Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland Amendment Bill were reported from the select committee without amendment. In speaking on the motion to commit the Arms Amendment Bill relating to the possession of firearms, Sir Francis Bell submitted that there was no cause to vary the provisions of the Act, as proposed, while there was the possibility of armed resistence by dangerous persons in the community. It was said that the provisions of the Act were proving irksome to the police and a nuisance to sportsmen, but what was that against the duty of Parliament to preserve law and order. Hons. Garland, Earnshaw, and Sir Robert Stout supported Sir Francis Bell’s remarks and Hons. Barr, Weston and Reed spoke in favour of the bill. The motion to commit the measure was carried by 16 to 10, but when Sir Francis Bell divided the council on the clause restricting the provisions of the Act requiring the issue of a permit for the purchase of firearms, etc., the clause was struck out by 16 to 11. Progress was reported on the bill and the council rose at 6.6 until 10.90 to--1 morrow.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 290, 6 November 1929, Page 10
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