PARLIAMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18172, 18 August 1922, Page 8

PARLIAMENT.

m PROGRESS MADE.

BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.

SOMEWHAT HEATED DEBATE

COUNCIL PASSES TARIFF BILL,. V [BI TELEOEAPK.— SPECIAL KKPOETEB.]

WELLINGTON. Thursday.

A motion of censure directed against Mr. J.. McCouibs (Lyttelton), allying a breach of the privileges of Parliament, occupied the House of Representatives today, to the atanost entire cxcl'osion of all other business,, and led to a somewhat heated debate. The motion was moved by the Prime Minister early in the afternoon, following a ruling by tho Speaker, and the debate was carried through the evening -until a late hour. The Prime Minister's motion was eventually carried by 44 votes to 21, atnd the House rose at 10.50 p.m.

In the afternoon Mr. M. J. Savage Auckland West) introduced the Motherhood Endowment Bill. Mr. F. Mahdor (Marsden) was given lcaivo t<? introduce the Whangarei Borough Leasing Empowering Bill. A question covering the alleged socialistic tendencies of a number "of students of Victoria College, Wellington, drew angry interactions from Labour member*, but no very d«tir»iU» information was supplied by the Minister for Education. .A number of Government Bills which were on tho Order Paper were not reached owing to tho time taken by the debate on.the motion of censure. The Tariff Agreement (Australia and Xew Zealand) Ratification Bill, tho Naval Defence Amendment Bill, and tho Land Drainage Amendment Bill were passed by tho Legislative Council during & brief sitting this afternoon.

POSSIBLE LEGISLATION.

PURE SEEDS BILL.

NOXIOUS WEEDS QUESTION. [BY TELKGBArH.—SPECIAL BEPORTEB.] WELLINGTON'. Thursday.

The question as to whether a Pure Seeds Bill should be brought down this session was receiving tho consideration of the Government, stated the Minister for Agriculture, Hon. W. Nosworthv today in answer to a question asked by Mr R. Masters (Stratford). The Minister reminded the member that there had been a great deal of opposition to the Bill introduced last session- It was possible, however, that this session a Bill on something like the same lmc3 would be brought down. , Replying to another inquiry from Mr. Masters, the Minister said the Government was also ccauddenng whether a Noxious W»eds Bill should be introduced. He had in view a conferenoe with the chairmen of counties upon the oueation of reorganising the whole of the existing scheme for 'the destruction of noxious we/ads He had no intention of increasing the number of inspectors, because of the expuoro that any increase would involve.

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS.

THE SCHOLARS AFFECTED.

A CAUTIOUS BEGINNING. [3Y TELECBAPH.—SPECIAL REPORTER.] •WELLINGTON. Thursday. Tho method to be followed in obtaining the complement of scholars for the pro--posed junior high schools was explained in the House to-day by the Minister ic-r Education in answer to Mr. 1. M. wilford who desired to know, on behalf of a number of teachers, the classes in the mimaiy and secondary schools from which it was "proposed to draw the pupils. The Minister said the idea of the junior high schoote, in accordance with a worldwide movement in education, was to terminate primary education at 12 years of age, and in all cases to carry the children from tho ages of 12 t 0 15 through a course of secondary education. Such a school woold take, probably, the children from Standard V., and certainly Standard VI., from the primary schools, and mo*i of the children. of the first form in the secondary schools. The junior high school evstem would not mean any new school*, as thev would have just the same number of children to deal ' with. It simply meant a different type of instruction, largely-with the present masters, arid for that reason it would be a mistake •to suppose that a wholesale change was being made. They proposed in making the experiment, both in the cities and the country, to go carefully and cautiously.

DISEASE IN CATTLE.

CHECKING TUBERCULOSIS.

GOVERNMENT INSPECTION, tBY TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL BJBPOBTEB.] WELLCSGTON. Thursday.

In the House of Representatives today, Mr. D. G. Sullivan (Avon) asked the Minister for Agriculture if he bad seen a .statement made by a lady, who delivered a health lecture in Cbristchurch, in which some criticisms were made regarding the testing of cattle for tuberculosis. The Hon. W. Noswcrthy replied that. the inspection of cattle for disease, including tuberculosis, had been maintained without interruption, and if diseased animals were found'they were condemned. In Canterbury hist year 420 cattle were condemned, and 96 'were condemned in the first three months of the presentyear. The tuberculin test was also applied in suspicious cases, or on application made by the owner. Last year 300 head were thus tested by the departmental officers in Canterbury, So far in the present financial year 156 were tested. The dairy herds supplying Christchurch and the other chief cities, added the Minister, are given special attention by the department, an officer in each case devoting his whole time to the work of the inspection of dairy premises and the animals comprising the herds supplying the cities with mi lit. rr ' *

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