LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12199, 25 July 1925, Page 7

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

BUSINESS AT YESTERDAY’S SITTING MANAGEMENT OF MUSEUM The Legislative Council met at 2.80 p.m, yesterday.. The Hon. G. M. Thomson asked the Attorney-General whether it is the intention of the Government to introduce a bill into Parliament this session placing the control and management of the Dominion .Museum under a board of trustees, as is done in the case of the British Museum and the Australian. Mvspum, in . order that the large sums, amounting already to JJ45.000, which it confidently anticipated can be counted upon, may he secured P Sir Francis Bell, in replying to the ?uestion, said the Government had deerred consideration of the matter till action had beet} taken ns to the terms upon which the Subsidy had been offered. MARRIAGE A**D NATIONALITY The Hon. M. Cohen asked the AttorneyGeneral whether, seeing that the British Government have sent to the several Dominion Governments a dispatch suggesting for their consideration that uniform legislation should be:adopted so that a British-born woman shall not on marriage Ipse her British nationality, if and so long as she does not acquire the nationality of her husband Tender the law of his own country, the Lea dor of the Council will inform the Council what steps (if any) the Government proposes to take to remove the disability in this respect reeting on. any New Zealand-born woman P * Sir Francis Bell said that a similar question had been placed on the Order Paper in the House of Representatives, ana he advised that the Teply from this . source be awaited by the Hon.' M. Cohen. BATTLESHIP TROPHIES The Hon. j. Craigie asked the Attor-ney-General. whether he can inform the Council what has become of the silver bell, silver shield; etc., presented by the school-children of New Zealand to the battleship bearing the Dominion's name, the’New Zealand having been dismantled find scrapped; and, until there is another ship, bearing the Dominion's name put in commission, could these gifts be placed on view in the i%p6tibule of this* building? - The mover said among the trophies was a oet of carvings which had been in tbo High Commissioner's office at .Horns, t Sir Francis Bell said that the silver bell and a number of the trophies had been transferred to the H.M.S. Dunedin, the principal unit of the New Zealand squadron. The remainder —including the shield presented by the children—were*in the . Dominion Museum. - - The second reading of the; Iron and Steel Industries Amendment' Bill, advanced by Sir Fr&nois Bell, was carried. v , The District Courts Abolition Bill, introduced by Sir Francis Bell, was read a first time and second time pro forma. The. Cook Islands Amendment Bill was read a .first, time. .

Tho Council adjourned till Wednosdaynext. v