THURSDAY , JANUARY 19. CEMETERY BILL.
On the motion of Mr. Lyon the Cemetery Bill was read a third time and passed.
MIXED PARTNERSHIPS^ BILL. On the motion of Mr. Revans the bill fan regulating Mixed Partnerships was read a third; time and passed.
ROAD BILL. The Council went into Committee on this* Bill. Severn! clauses were discussed and agreed to. On clause 80, allowing six months forclajm*to compensation by th? owner of any section fur the removal of materials for repairs of roads, Mr. Ludlam. — A principle was adopted yesterday which ne thought should be adhered to, he was most desirous that strict justice shoulddone, that it should not be said by the absentees,, they we're' taxed on one side; — i The Chairman.- — I don't care what they say '
Ludlam. — The Chairman might not carewbat was said but he did, he would not haveany thing unfair done because they were absenttees ; if so short a notice as six mouths weregiven they would be, shut out. He wished to see the principle adopted yesterday of giving:, eighteen months' notice carried through the A'cU Mr. Brandon said that the British Parliament in legislating respecting property never considered whether the owners weje present or absent. They had no right, on account of absentees,., to confuse their legislation or stop the progressof their works. Mr. Bell thought the absentees should havea fair chance afforded them of doing wbat was required of them. With respect to the facts beforethem, it must be'reraembered the settlement wasformed in the first instance by the, assistance of absentee capital, the proportion of their lands to those of the residents was stated to be be as Ys> to 25, and he thought they were entitled toareason.able notice. The Prov. Secretary said if the matter wasof greater importance an extension, of time might? be allowed; but in a matter of this kind his; thought a notice of six months sufficient. * Mr. Moore proposed' as an. amendment thesubstitution of 18 months. , The committee divided. For Mr. amendmentMessrs. Bell, Hart, Ludlam, Moore, Wakefield. Against— Messrs. Brandon, Brown, Clifford 1 , Fitzherbert, Lyon, W&tt, Wallace. Oh clause 95, which prohibits the erection "within 50 yards of any road, of any windmill or ■steam engine," &c, unless " such windmill or steam engine shall be within, some house," &c. Mr. Bell submitted, to the learned legal adviser that it would be difficult to put a windmill inside a house. /Clause altered.' On clause 98 being read^ The Prov. Secrt.ta.ey said Ire had 'been in^ : formed that under this clause, as it at presenfe ! stood, the Hutt vans could not be driven into. .Wellington. Some other clauses were discussed ; when The Prov. Secretart drew the' attention of* Mr. Ludlam, as Chairman of the Road Committee, to the subject of the width of wheels. After some discussion it w«s agreed to refer the question ,to> the. Road Commissioners, and that a higher tax should be paid on narrow wheels, than' on 1 broad wheels for timber 'waggons,, and other heavily laden' vehicles. . The' Chairman, reported progress, and. th* house adjourned.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 19. CEMETERY BILL.
New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 884, 21 January 1854, Page 4
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