PARLIAMENT AT WORK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12698, 28 October 1904, Page 6

PARLIAMENT AT WORK.

GALLERY. NOTES AND LOBBY GOSSIP. [BY TBiZGEAFH.— ?EE3S ' AS3OC'.:ATIOK.] .-'l'-- Wellington, Thursday. MR. Heebies is urging the Native Minister to consider the advisability of arranging •with the Minister for Mines to open-: the Urewera country to prospecting for gold or other minerals. <■ - ' \ THE BONA-FIDE TRAVELLER. Doubt is expressed as to whether the ibona-ficle traveller has been - killed outright by the Legislative Council. Clause 40 of the Licensing Bill as amended now simply leads: "Subsection sof section 22 of the Amendment Act of 1895 is hereby regaled, so far as the same refers to travellers. This provision of the Act of 1895 is not, however, the one which gives the bona-nde traveller hill charter. His privileges were created by (sections 156 and 157 of the Act of 1881, and the substantial effect of subsection 5 of section 22 of the 1895 Act •was to -repeal section 156 and to re-enact it •with the addition of the pulling words: "On arriving from a journey. Ihe Mouse modified tbsae words, and also substituted five miles for the three miles fixed by section 157 as the distance a man must travel m order to qualify as a traveller. Repealing subsection 5 as the Council proposes does not r»M*ore the original , section 100 which it repealed, but it does restore section 157 to its original shape, although, while it deids with the onus of proof and specifically denies .the bona-fide traveller, it does not in so many words authorise the licensee to serve him. It is not likely, however, that the House, will allow the position of this elusive personality to remain in such an anomalous position, and the Bill will have to deal with him definitely before it becomes law.

REPORTING PROCEEDINGS OF PARLIAMENT.

Mi'. T. Mackenzie has given notice to ask ! the Government .whether, with a view to carrying out the work of Parliament with greater despatch, and also to make more widely known the proceedings of the House, they will make inquiries into the possibility of using the present money expended. in the cost of . Hansard to better advantage, by considering(l) the abolition or modification of the present methods; (2) the employment of the Hansard staff partly in the preparation of the official record and partly in preparing a summary ot the proceedings of Parliament for publication; and (3) the advisability of communicating with the leading newspapers with the object of learning what subsidy woidd be required to devote certain space daily for the publication of such summary of'the proceedings of Parliament. .--.-.:. ,