PARLIAMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19397, 4 August 1926, Page 14

PARLIAMENT.

DAIRYING CONTBOL. A LENGTHY DISCUSSION. NEW MEASURES APPEAR. UNIVERSITY CONSTITUTION [BY TELEGRAPH.—- SPECIAL REPORTER.] WELLINGTON. Tuesday. The Dairy Produce Export Amendment Bill came up for its second reading in the House of Representatives to-night. Although mainly concerned with the method of electing producers' representatives on the Control Board, the measure provoked much discussion upon the compulsory control question. The Minister of Agriculture, Hon. 0. J. Hawken, opened with a speech lasting nearly an hour arid was followed by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. H. E., Holland, who declared himself against the" new franchise proposed in the bill. The Minister of Health, Hon. J. A. Young, replied and the member for Wanganui, Mr. W. A. Veitch, led off on behalf of those opposed to compulsory control. The tlebate was proceeding at a late hour. In the afternoon seven bills were introduced by Governor-General's Message. They included one reconstituting the University of New Zealand on a federal ba,si3, but making for the present no change in the administration of the fouruniversity colleges. The Land and Income Tax (Annual) Bill made no change in last year's; rates of taxation. Another measure was a Government Railways Bill, merely consolidating the law. The remaining bills embodied amendments to the law respecting branding of stock, Rotorua fisheries and education, A couple of hours and more wore spent iri discussing State advances apropos of the annual report of tho office.

MATERIALS FOR ROADING. HIGHWAYS BOARD ATTITUDE. NO PREFERENCE FOR BITUMEN. [by telegraph.—special reporter.] WELLINGTON. Tuesday. The Main Highways Board does not specially advocate bitumen or any particular road-making material, according to a statement made in the House to-day by the Prime Minister. Mr. Coates said the board recommended a material only after it had ascertained the volume of traffic- and the class of road that was required. The whole question was controlled by costs, especially the rate of interest and the term of the loan. Naturally the board did not encourage a local body to go in for a very expensive class of : road if another class would do. It had obtained information from all parts of the world and it went-carefully into every case. It did not advocate bitumen when the volumj of traffic justified a more expensive material, nor did it favour bitumen as bitumen. It consideii'fid only the traffic and the cost per mile. . FEWER FACTORY WORKERS SHOPS NOW TOTAL 25,000. INDUSTRIAL DISTURBANCES. [by telegraph.-—special reporter.] WELLINGTON. Tuesday. The Labour Department's report shows that during the year the number of factories increased by 443,, but thero was a decfease.of 305 in"the number of workers. The increase in the number of factories is due to the fact that many small factories wore registered . during tho year, particularly in districts whero hydrohas become available and small motors could be cheaply installed: The decrease in the number o! employees is duo to a reduction of tho number engaged in sawmills, dairy factories, woollen mills and women employed in the millinery trade. The milliners suffered because. of the smaller amount of trimming now required in women' 3 hats. There are now nearly 25,000 shops i New Zealand. Half of these are carried on without assistants. In the shops with assistants there are employed 20,029 males and 19,781 females. Thero were 373 convictions under the Shops and Offices Act, £694 in fines being iipposed. There were 102 industrial disturbances in the Dominion during the year. Of these 72 were trivial. Coalmine, shipping and wharf labour- were responsible for many of the' more serious disputes.

TEACHING QUALIFICATIONS UNCERTIFICATED PERSONS. ISSUE OF LICENSES TO CEASE. [BY TKGEOItAFH.' —SPEOIAI. REPORTER.] "WELLINGTON". Tuesday A number of amendments to tho Education Act, 1914, are proposed in a bill introduced in the House to-day. One of the more important provisions does away with the issuing to uncertificated persons of licenses to teach, It is laid j down, however, that present holders of such licenses shall' have all. their rights preserved as long as the licenses remain in force. Such existing licenses may be renewed subject to the provisions of the regulations under which they were issued. Another clause provides that a teacher who _haa applied for and then refused a position offered by an education board shall be ineligible for appointment to a position by any board for a period of twelve months, or such shorter period as may bo fixed by the director of education, unless he satisfies the director that there was sufficient and proper reason for the refusal. Children may : not- be expelled from school by a teacher, but may only be suspended. All such suspensions are to be investigated by the education board of the district, which may reinstate the child or forbid its attendance until the cause of complaint has. been remedied or no longer exists. Intermediate and leaving certificates may be granted in cases where, in the opinion of the director of education, a child has received equivalent instruction outside New Zealand. Medical inspection now applicable only to public schools and to registered piivate primary schools at the request of their authorities is extended to all schools, primary and secondary.

LAND AND INCOME TAX. NO CHANGES PROPOSED. [BY TELEGRAPH. —SPECIAL REPORTER.] WELLINGTON. Tuesday. The Land and Income Tax (Annual) Bill> introduced into. the House of Representatives to-day proposes no changes in the current rates ol taxation under cither heading,, ■ •• .