GENERAL ASSEMBLY
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10. The Council met at 2.30 p.m.
TRAINING COLLEGES.
The. Hon. C. C. BO WEN asked whether the Government proposed to place on the Estimates a- sufficient sum to enable the training school for teachers at Christchurch. to carry on efficiently the work which had done such good service to the cause of education. . The Hon. W. C. WALKER, in reply, said he trusted the Government would be able to give Parliament during this session a substantial indication that it -was endeavouring to place education finance on a sounder and more satisfactory footing.. BILLS DEALT WITH. The Ministers' Salaries and Allowances Bill was read a first fame. The Paeroa Gasworks Bill was read a second time. The Noxious Weeds Bill was read a third time and passed. '. . IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. The debate on the second reading of the Imprisonment for ■ Debt Limitation Bill was resumed. . < The Hon. Mr BONAR said that the provision that there should be no imprisonment where a judgment debt did not exceed £20 would ofter a direct premium to dishonesty. The Hoii. Colonel jfJLTT said the proper way to deal with the matter would be to pass an act applying to ordinary debts, and providing that there should be no imprisonment whatever for those debts. . . The Hon. X; REEVES said the bill requii'ed was one to absolutely abolish imprisonment lor debt. The lion. H. GOURLEY said if the promoters of the bill were serious they should propose to do away with the recovery of debts by legal process. The Hon. A. L. SMJ/i'H spoke in favour of putting aside distress warrants, and also of the abolition of the present high bankruptcy fees, so as to open the Bankruptcy Court to all classes of perdois. The Hon. Mr SHRIMSKI said there w«re cases in which debt collecting agencies were The' Hon. W. C. WALKER, in reply, said if the Council was ready to take such a broad and liberal view of the laws affecting insolvency and the recovery of debts, the other branch of the Legislature, he" was informed, was not prepared to go beyond the bill as it stood. The second reading was agreed to on the voices.
The Council rose at 3.25 p.m.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11809, 11 August 1900, Page 8
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