PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15384, 22 February 1912, Page 8

PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

NOTES FROM THE PRESS GALLERY. (Fkoh Odb Own Correston'dent.) WELLINGTON, February 21. Lcavo of absencc foT the present session was granted to Mr T. M. Wilford (mombor for iluit) by tho Houso of Iteprcecnlatives thii( .afternoon, on tlio ground of his ill-hoalth. Tlie motion for lcavo waa proiwsed by Mr Myers, and cairiod on tho voiccs. STRANGERS IN TIIE HOUSE. Discussion wae renewed in tho llouso this afternoon rcjjardiny tho difliculty arising from tho indiscriminate issue of tickets for admksiou lo tho galleries and to tho floor of tho Chamber. It was finally decided that tho Speaker should endeavour lo restrict the audience ot strangers lo rcasonablo limits by lixlng tho number of scata for strangers to bo allowed on tho floor ot tho Chamber and ■ / forbidding tho admission of any person after tho availablo accommodation was occupied, RIGHTS OF CIVIL SERVANTS. < The repeal of soetioa B of " Tho Crown Snll* Act, 1910," has- been proposed by Mr C. Ii Statham, on tho ground that Uto provisions of tho section seriously curtad the righta of civil servants and their dependents for compensation for injury or doath in their employment. AUTHORITIES FOR LOANS. A Btntoincait o! tho nnoxlmißlfd authorities for raising loans was tabled by tho Primo Minister this afternoon, ;i£ follows :—" Aid to Public Works and Laud Settlement Act, 1911." £1,150,000; "Naval Defenco Act, 1909," £600,000; " Aid to Water Power Works Act, 1910," £500,000; "Appropriation Act, 1911" (soction 17), £100,000; "Wailiou mid Ohmomori Rivers Impn)vemcnt Act, 1910," £50,000; "Jlult Railway and Road Improvcmont Act, 1910," £5320; "Government Railways Amendment Act, 1910," £68,010; "Sccncry Preservation Act, 1908," £55,000; "State Fire Insuraneo Act, 1908," £98,000; " Coal M ines Act, 1908," £10,000; advances to settlers, £900,000; advancefi lo workers, £425,000; land for settlementfi, £742,650; Native land settlement, £245,500; local authorities, £878,000; guaranteed mining, £15,000 total, £5,842,480. A RETURN WANTED. .. Mr F. 11. Smith is to move that there ba laid before the Houso a return show- ■ ing tho area, thu prico paid per aero, and tho clatfl of pirrch.uo of tliat portion of tlio Eldurslio <sstato near Oaniaru .K quinxl by tho Government for clostrr Bcltlemeiit.