PARLIAMENT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 4 August 1928, Page 7

PARLIAMENT

YESTERDAY'S pSJNESS^ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATfiJfiS '■* . > ', . (By Telegraph) (From "Tile Mttil's'' Parlramentary'. . Reporter). ;'•..: ,''-^' WELLINGTON, 3rd '» '' The House of Representative's met ats--2.30 p.m. to-day. : - ; ■' ■' '■•- '• .•"''>■*' Colonel Allen Bell (Bay of Islands)-, gave notice to ask..the ; Minis j£'r; 6t \ o , Marine if he had yet,completed, vestigatiqns regarding the. [, suggestion." ~* made that the oyster Auckland Peninsula should be jeasea, .f' «^ Mr H. G. R. Mason (EdenVgayefipt£ce>'" • to ask the Minister of Defence .j he will arrange to have apprentices \•' * carried free on,the railways tP;j fl .t.tefi,(3L,compulsory drills, .thus.,obviating.; ex*" penditure out of their small earnings..;.. ■•. The Hutt River Board.Empowering' Bill was introduced on the moti*ra-. :(&«<. Mr T. M. W'ilford(Hutt), and '.read 3d V first time. ■'• •■ i ' ; - 'V** ;'"'' CONDITIONS'OF RELIEF WORKS Mr'D. G. Sulliyian (Avon) as.ke,d the. Minister of Public Works: whether* J he-. would inquire into statements supplied.; to him by workers engaged' on" works in the South. Mr SulliVan said'"that the men stated that they refused straw for "their i.jbeds; and'Had" been supplied with'wet;bunks a*nd dirty mattress cases. It was also alleged they had been kept working atvAll'-» hours,, including'the King's Birthday.;--•-and Anzac Bay, and that their cbrespondencehad'been unduly, delayed. •. The Hon. K. S. Wiliams. asked for a copy, of "the. charges, when, he; would have inquiries made. ~ ;> \; Mr A. ; 4 \Martin ) (Rstglan);: tasked when the rojls foV ; the,' coining General Election would be available. . „,.... \.t »,,-. The Minister in charge of the Eleptoral Department. . (the 1 D. McLeod) replied that jnost of>th3 priht;i 1 ing in connection withUhe v^ollßf"'-'VV9*': '' ?: -' being done in the various' eleetoratesi:'. <v; In the great majority of the lele'etbrjit'e'Sv"~| the work was completed, and the* <roHs ; had been, and were beingj 'forwarded : to,*>*.the returning officers. *> •'*' '''*^?-}T r --p. Am Mr H. Atmdre "(Nelaoh)"Wake f Prime! Minister if 4t ; of the Government to a' N6*" Zealand liaison offieer ~for ,the i,,Air.,; as.suggested by'J>fr,iL 'C"*jM..Jk* j,, Amery in dispatches.; ' /./:,; ,;•"*?*,..'* The Prime ior officer was 'in England .for 'lfif&ijQ years, and when he returned he ed a scheme/in conjunction with-thff/ oi head of the Air Board, for bases at Auckland andiWeilihgton^.'., .ii and the provision for machines. It had " been i S considered r 3 ." whether a 1 permanent ; liaison'bfflc"er_ , s.''* should be stationed in Great but the immediate question t^V'^tt'- 7 cerned them was that of'COstr^^Tfie 5 < -';' Minister of Defence had in; hrr^d ,; stationing of ah officer in a suitable opportunity, arrived ; duty it would be to acquaint land with the latest 'information, garding military and commercial. ajjj&iL.,".' tidn. ' ."■',*■; .i ■'.-.; ! '' ■ '-'* f LEAGUE,OF ;' ! '(.\ ■On the presentation of , : the"r"eport of / the representative, of "New Zealand at ■ the eighth ■ assembly of the Leagua-6f Nations at Geneva HnW2Z)~: the Leader of th%Opposition (MKH/.E/SqUajid)-!. suggested,that, as matters'raised'HVetMTr] of outstanding importance, the sion on the paper'vshotild he postpdiiedCl until later in the sesgibh;?-' f") v ' svife..'.- ■ The Prime Minister sahL'it ficult to whether a, "discu'v' sion could be fitted'iinj but it might bo taken at the same time as the discus-.,_. ,sion on the Kellogg'Note,/,'