PARLIAMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18171, 17 August 1922, Page 8

PARLIAMENT.

PRIVATE MEMBERS' BAY. CONFERENCE, • 'APPEARANCE OF REPORT. MAIN TRUNK ACCIDENT. :. [US TELEOBArH.—SPECIAL BEPORTBB.3 WELLINGTON, Wednesday. It was private members' day in the House of Representatives, but the greater •part of the afternoon had passedbefore . private members' business, came up for consideration. Sir John Sahnond's report on the Washington Conference on the limitation of armaments was tabled by the Prime Minister, and Friday next was set "apart for the debate on this document. -Leave was given t$ the Hon. J. QCoates to introduce the Aged and Infirm Personn Protection Amendment Bill. The States Advances Amendment Bill was introduced by Governor-General's Message and read a first time. The House was slightly ruffled when attention was drawn to the fact that the member for Lyltelton had attached to his Proportional Representation Bill a memorandum in which he had again referred to the alteration in the boundaries of the Kaiapot electorate. It was suggested that a breach of privilege had been committed by the member by his method in thus getting 'his views into a Parliamentary Paper of the kind. A statement on the cause of the recent rati way accident at Drury on Friday evening lastwas made by the Minister for Railways For an hour and a-half before the dinner ad jcurnmenfc members debated the answers given by Ministers to questions* In the evening Mr. G. Mitchell (Wellington South i wins permitted to go through the formality of moving the second reading of the Child Sustenance Bill, the Prime' Minister poinSTng out that thiß was an appropriation Bill, and as such could not be put through by a private member, Tho second reading was carried, and then the Speaker ruled that the Bill was an appropriation BUI and could not proceed. The House rose at 10.30 p.m.