PRIVATE MEMBERS
LEGISLATIVE EFFORTS GAMING BILL ANNOUNCED (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Private members of the House have a limited opportunity of securing consideration of bills if they introduce them early enough, and no time was lost by Sir Geo. Hunter ill giving notice within the first hour of the session to introduce an amendment to the Gaming Act, which he nominated for the first reading on Wednesday, June 20. Another familiar measure brought promptly to the front was Mr. T. K. Sidey's Summer Time Hill, the mover raising the only laugh of the sitting when he mentioned its name. Other private members' Bills placed on the Older Paper are a Motor Omnibus Traffic Act Amendment Bill (Mr. T. M. Wilford); Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act Amendment (Mr. T. M. Wilford); and Judicial Proceedings and Regulation of Reports Bill (Mr. P. Eraser), who said thai it proposes to regulate the reporting of judicial proceedings so as to" pre von I injury to public morals. The first local Bill was placed on the Order Paper by Mr. D. G. Sullivan, this being the Christ church City Sanitation and Empowering Bill. The sensitive member for Auckland East has tabled a question to the Minister of Justice inquiring whether the alarmist statement of Commissioner Mcllvetiey regarding crime in Auckland wits made with the .Minister's concurrence. THE SMALL FARMER The leader of the National party, Mr. G. W. Forbes, has asked the Prime Minister if he will have an investigation made into the economic position of the small farmers of the Dominion, with a view to providing some means whereby they may be assisted in their present difficult position. The Hon. P. Buddo has suggested to the Minister of Lands, in a question, that he should introduce legislation making it possible to provide a cash equivalent to the present provision that in the subdivision of suburban land for building sites 5 per cent, of the area must be set aside for public purposes.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16375, 24 June 1927, Page 7
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