PARLIAMENT AT WORE,

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12696, 26 October 1904, Page 5

PARLIAMENT AT WORE,

GALLERY NOTES AND LOBBY GOSSIP. [by wijEaßipn.—sPEciAL COIir.ESrONUENT.] Wellington, Tuesday. The Education Committee has considered ta- Teachers' Salaries Amendment Bill, and ; . recommend that it be allowed to proceed, with certain amendments. The committee has not made any alteration in the proposed scale of salaries, but has amended the second schedule so that teachers of schools of ovei eigh' (instead of over 10) and not over 20, shall receive a house allow>y- ance of £10. THE LOAN BILL. The Loan Bill provides for a loan of £750,000, and the maximum rate of interest proposed is 4A per cent. Oi the total tmount £275,000 is in respect of the following railways:—Kawakawa - Graham- ) town, Helcnsville Northwards, PaeroaWaihi, viisborne-Karaka, Egmout branch, Stratford-Kawakawa, Marton-Te Awamutu, -Blenheim-Waipara, Midland, Greymouth- . Hokitik.i (extension to Ross), NgahereBlackball, Otago Central, Heriot extension, Catlins-Seaward Bush, Riversdale-Switzers, and permanent way or othei materials. For ; additional rolling stock for open lines and . ■ such other works and purposes as may be auj • thori3ed, £75,000 is proposed to be expended. The sum of £350,000 is proposed '-/■■;■ ** land settlement, including the construction of roads, tracks, and bridges for &* purpose of opening up back .blocks, and £20,000 fo; the purpose oi developing the feoldfields, aud £30.000 tor telegraph extension, ■ Heavt Ur firm'- will take plucc from Iho ->ortb Head arid Mount Victoria about ton [. ,'. »-m. oa l'riday next.