PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15365, 9 November 1920, Page 9

PARLIAMENTARY NEWS.

.. i, - 1. ■■- -I _ ■ ' 'i. - TH_ ,SXf ZsT it atSTPftCT, ' (Trojn Out " F fttfrairlenfarT Reporter.* . ... ■.><.JT-I>Ll!l.T'*r'+-.C s A*», A:^d". V"i:7i ' ?.n'.^niphr.s:3^hi?'h jiiadp. h::.7.t.:.tr?---'me- ali the> ir-ci-o ,"iaV.gnSbic, ""Sir __?Cr.ii*.:m dscir.^ji to r ?.n. .^*.ZyZ.iik?6. Kc^r-. -.jr. > terday, "lliiy'oTrh ocr.-titv.or.cj, '"V7„'rr.v., :?. the oiupidost d&triti 'in ['thi. whole Dominion." After quite a respectable interval until 'the laughter could subside,, the member for Wairau - added. ■ "that he had the stupidest bouhdaiie.G for the wisestpeople in tho whole Dominion. He thought the Boundaries gave him bad boundaries, knowing "he was good at . protesting/ rand -. would get: a . chahg-e made* in tne system so as to give them more discretion, to .allocate, population, ir t readjusting electoral .boundaries. HELP FOR THE BLIND- j During the session six. thousand persons; petitioned the Government oh. behalf ot! tho blind, urging that they be given State aid., Mr Kellett asked 'the Premier yesterday what was being done. Mr Massey. replied'Miat, if permitted the Cabinet would consider the matter before the supplementary estimates wero. introduced. If not they would sep. what < could be done in regard to care for. the blind. SCHOOL SWIMMING. BATHS. .The Minister. of Education, when. he was asked by Mr Nash, to . make .larger subsidies to school swimming T?a!ths, said the /present subsidy given this .year for the first time ranged up.. to! £150, "and he held .out no hope of an increase, because there was such a, large depmnd for subsidies it was time to call a halt. -j : PUBLIC SERVANTS IN POLITICS. • On tho motion of tho Premier the following; -new : clause was inserted in the Legislative Act Amendment Bill yesterday:" Not-withstanding anything to the contrary in section 24 in the .Legislative Act of 1908, no person.. employed in a Department of State shall be disqualified from being a candidate for election as a member of Parliament by reason of the fact that ho is a civil servant as defined by said section if he has been, granted leave of absence pursuant. to regulations jin that behalf made by the Governor-Geii-I eral in Council for. the purposq of enabling him to accept, nomination as such candidate and to contest an election." I APARIES ACT. .. .-., .Y.. . j An amendment to the Aparies Act, 1908, \yas introduced by Governor-General's message.—rPress Assn.