IN THE HOUSE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13088, 23 October 1935, Page 5

IN THE HOUSE.

SECOND EDITION

VARIETY OF TOPICS. mm: bills passed. There was plenty of variety in the subjects discussed by members of the Mouse ot" Representatives yesterday. when good progress wa, made with the Bills on the Order Paper. The adjournment was taken at 10.30 p.in., alter nine Bills had been put through all stages and passed. They were the Coal Mines Amendment Ball Urban Karin Land Rating Amendment Bill. Immigration Restriction Amendment Bill. Administration. Amendment Bill, Rent Restriction Amendment Bill, Colonial Light Due... Amendment Bill, Whaling Industry Bill. Law Practitioners Amendment Bill and Judicature Amendment Bill.

Iwo new Bills w ere introduced by Governor-General's Message at the commencement oi the e\ euilig sit!!!!f a Public Works Amendment j' 1 :; iUI “ 11 Laud Law . Amendment Bill. Miscellaneous provisions are contained in both measures. Hu clauses in the Public Works Amendment Bill relate chiefly to the tnkiu - ol land tor aerodromes and the exee else of control over the heights of trees and buildings in the vicinity or such grounds, irrigation, the erection oi cattle-stops on back- block roads, and the regulation ot electric lines and other apparatus. The most important clause in the Land Law, Amendment Bill is that reviving tin, provisions for revaluation in K-la-turn to Crown lands.

In accordance with undertakings given when the War Pensions Amendment Bill and the War Veterans Allowances Bill were in committee amendments were introduced and agreed to providing that pensions be payable from the first day ot the month in which application was made instead of the first day of the month in which application was Another amendment permits the payment of an allowance to the wife of a veteran who is living apart from Ifer husband ii the AA'ar Pensions Board is satisfied she has good cause for doing so. NATIONAL HALF-HOLIDAY. A recommendation that the Government should favourably consider holding a refoiendum on the subject ot a national Saturday bali-holida v was brought down by the Public Petitions Committee. . v V - ¥L Bar,,ard < Lab.. Napier) thnt there were distinct advantuges to be derived from a national h.i Itholiday, which would obviate tba position which existed at present where oi-t nets were divided into groups tending toward social cJi.pies. J nt j fit e-day w eeK was last be-com in , a matter ot practical politics, and lor that reason it wa s more necessary than ever that a national Saturday hall-holiday should be observed. It would do away with a great amount of petty' j« alousy that existbetween neighbouring towns which were to a certain «xtent competing against one another.

. "I f'l'l sure that if .this proposal ,s . "endorsed by the Government therg will Im. an overwhelming majoritv in lavour of the national Saturdav hal:-holiday.” said Mr .J A Nash (Govt.. Palmerston). ”1 trust that ihc Government will give effect to the w i.lirv of a large proportion of th. people ct New Zealand.”

Ihe recommendation was om..■ I by Mr < . H Clinkard (Govt.. Rotorua) who said that in his opinion the democratic principle was the on’ at present in force, under which the people of different communities were enabled to choose for themselves when they would ol >soi ve the halfholiday. He saw no reason why the system should Ins i hanged.

Mr H. Holland (Govt.. Christchurch North) said that in Christeburch there were two seaside borougli s which re.ijved a harvest on Saturdays irom jteople visiting the seaside, and they would 1 1, - deprived ot this advantage if a national Saturday half-holiday were instituted. He contended that each localit should lie able to chcN.se the halfholiday that suited it ti .f. The report of the committee, which wo- presented by Mr R A Wright (Tnd.. Wellington Suburbs ■' was laid on th,. table.