LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1747, 30 August 1905, Page 52

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

TUESDAY, AUGUST 22. The Council met at 2.30 p.m. THIRD READING. The Maori Land Councils Bill was read a third time. STATUTES COMPILATION. The Statutes Compilation Act Amendment Bill was put through committee unamended, and read a third time. The Council rose at 2.55 p.m. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23. • The Council met at 2.30 p.m. PUBLIC WORKS. The adjourned debate on the Public Works v Act Amendment Bill was continued. ~ , The Hon Mr CARNGROSS said, although he considered that the first two clauses were necessary, the other two clauses were not required. The Hon Mr WIGRAM said he did not oppose the bill, but there were some very important amendments necessary. The Hon Mr KELLY contended that the bill was one containing matter that could only be dealt with satisfactorily by the Government. It should not have been introduced by a private member. The Hon Mr JENKINSON thought it was a pity that there was not a committee to deal with bills concerning public works. The bill was put into committee after further discussion. Clauses 1 (short title) and 2 (repealing the words “forty feet” and substituting the words “sixty links” in the act of 1904, where it refers to transfers of land abutting on roads or streets not less than 40ft in width) were passed. At clause 3 (on petition of not less than two-thirds of the owners having frontage on any unformed road of not less than 66ft in-width which had for five years or upwards prior to 1900 been used as a public road, the local authority may form the same and apportion „ the cost amongst the owners in proportion to frontage held by them), an amendment was, moved by the Hon Colonel Feldwick to include street® as well as roads. This was lost by 19 votes to 7. The clause was then struck out of the bill by 13 votes to 12. The Hon Sir HENRY MILLAR moved an amendment to clause 4 (power to forbid heavy traffic) as follows: —- “Where the engineer or supervisor of the local authority acting in the capacity of engineer has certified that the carriage of any particular weight or the conduct of any particular kind of traffic will cause serious injury to a road or street, the said engineer or supervisor of the local authority under whose oontrol the road or street is at the time may by public notice forbid such carriage or traffic unless the cost, as estimated by the local authority, of reinstating the road is previously paid to it.” This was lost by 17 votes tt 6. The whole clause was then struck out on the voices, and the bill was reported from committee as amended. MARRIAGES VALIDATION. The seoond reading of the Marriages Validation Bill (validating marriages with deceased’s wife’s neice or deceased husband's nephew) was carried on the voices without discussion. MOTOR REGISTRATION. The Motor Registration Bill was recommitted, and technical amendments made. The Council adjourned at 4.50 p.m. THURSDAY, AUGUST 24. The Council met at 2.30 p.m. PUBLIC WORKS. The Hon Colonel FELDWICK gave notice of his intention to move the re-committal-of the Public Works Amendment Bill. THIRD READING. The Motor Registration Bill was read a third time. LOCAL BILLS. The following local bills were read a second time: —Palmerston North High School Reserve, Wanganui Harbour, Tirnaru Borough Drainage, Sewerage and Loans, Eltham Borough Drainage and Water Supply Empowering. MARRIAGES VALIDATION. The Marriage Validation Bill was put into committee. It provides that marriages with deceased wife’s niece or deceased husband’s nephew contracted prior to the passing of the bill shall be valid, provided that the bill shall not render valid any such marriage in any ease where either of the parties of such marriage shall thereafter before the passing of the bill have lawfully intermarried with any other person. Members became entangled with various possible results of the proviso j/it forward, and eventually progress was reported. The bill was sent to the Statutes Revision Committee. The Council rose at 3.15 p.m. FRIDAY, AUGUST 25. The Council met at 2.30 p.m. NEW BILL. • The Hon Colonel Pitt gave notice to

introduce the Taranaki Scholarships Act, 1905, No. 2. OTHER BUSINESS. A number of local bills from the House of Representatives were read a first time. A discussion, reported elsewhere, took place on a motion concerning the Colonial Bank. The revised standing orders, as reported from the Standing Orders Committee, were agreed to, with minor amendment®; and it was resolved they should come into operation after the close of the present session. The Council rose at 4.45 p.m,.