WORK OF PARLIAMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16039, 4 October 1915, Page 7

WORK OF PARLIAMENT.

BILLS STILL TO COME. SESSION MAY END THIS WEEK.* [BT TELEGRAPH. — CORRESPON-DENT.] Weilingtox, Sunday. Members were saying on Thursday last that the session would end on Wednesday of this week, But the prospects of such an early release are not now so rosy. The House should get through all its business very easily this week, however. Of the Bills yet to make their appearance the Commercial Trusts 'Amendment Bill, an extension of the present Act, which aims at the regulation of trusts and combines, is likely to prove the most contentious. The purpose of the amendment is to give the Government power to cope with, the problem of the cost of living. The " Washing-up " Bill will probably make its appearance to-morrow. The Prime Minister has already announced that the Bill is a very big one. A Bill which has in it possibilities of trouble is the Industrial and Conciliation . Amendment Bill, which provides for giving a right of appeal to some tribunal, probably the Arbitration Court, to workers on the waterfront at certain ports, especially at Auckland, who consider that they have been victimised since the strike. The clause is a simple one, which the House would accept readily enough, but the introduction of a Bill to amend the Arbitration Act'opens up the whole Act for review and discussion, and gives any member so disposed a right to move amendments. The Bill may occupy an hour or a day. The Legal Practitioners Amendment Bill, an innocent measure into which an amendment concerning the rights of King's Counsel to practice as a solicitor was introduced on the motion of Mr. Hindmarsh. is still hung up. The Legislative Council deleted the- new- clause, but the House seems likely to disagree with the "other place," A compromise will f probably, he effected, because it is ..important that the . Bill should go through. , The Teport of the Education Boundaries Commission has yet to he presented, and it is sure to be discussed at some length. The only other new business in sight is the passing of the Supplementary Estimates and the Appropriation BilL The only measure now on the Order Paper that, looks serious!;* contentious is the Alien Enemy Teachers Bill, but there is a possibility now of the Bill being disposed of without much trouble.? '\ ~ < . -.] &„* * .

Industrial Schools Amendment. The Industrial Schools Amendment Bill, which 'wiH be introduced ■ next week, is a step in the direction of classification which the Minister for Education, the Hon. J. A. Hanan, is desirous of bringing about in connection with institutions under his charge. At some of these instiiutions, •wing to the refractory conduct of a number of the inmates it is impossible to enforce proper discipline, and power is being sought to transfer such inmates to an institution which a magistrate may consider more suitable under the circumstances. Counsel will be appointed to plead on behalf of any inmate whose transfer is contemplated, and provision will be made for appeal against transference and for the re--turn of the person concerned fo the institution in which he or she was originally should such return be deemed advisable. Every consideration will be given to those being dealt with, ,But the pnrpose of the Bill is to have a deterrent effect on refractory inmates of institutions, and the transference will have the effect of a sentence for reformative treatment.. Educational Matters.' Amone the Bills to be brought down during the week will he one to make a slight necessary machinerv amendment in the Education Act. The Minister for Edncation stated to-dav that there ore imnrovements in connection with the Education Department that- he would like to make, affecting salaries among other things, hut he wiH not be able to touch them this session.