THE SESSION'S WORK

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16703, 21 July 1928, Page 13

THE SESSION'S WORK

COMMITTEE' DISCUSSIONS MORE BILLS CONSIDERED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. In committee on the Garden Diseases Bill this evening, Messrs. ,1. A. Nash and I), Reid protested against- the compulsory destruction of hawthorn hedges afflicted with 'fireblight. The Minister said that where a hedge did not. affect an orchard, the farmer might be allowed to retain it. Moderation would be observed in the administration of the powers given by the Act. The Bill was reported without amendment, rend a third time and passed. EN(: INEBBING QUALIFICATIONS The Hon. A. D. MeLeod moved the second reading of (he Surveyors Institute Amendment Bill. He said this ISill was a, complement of the Surveyors Registration Bill, except for certain amendments of minor importance_in relation to the. council of the Surveyors Institute. Its sole purpose was to separate the law relating to the incorporated society known as the Surveyors Institute from the general iaw relating to registration of surveyors, and 1 the conduct of the profession of surveying. It was proposed to effect this purpose by repealing the provisions of the Surveyors Institute and the Board of Examiners Act, 1908. The repealed provisions so far as necessary would be re-enacted in the Surveyors liegist ration Bill. Speeches of members discussing the Bill dealt principally with the cases of men who had been refused degistration as surveyors mainly because their studies were interfered with by war services, and asked that their cases he considered sympathetically. The Minister for Lands pointed out that engineers' registration, which had been frequently referred to, came under a different statute. He said that there was a responsibility on the Public Works Department and local bodies in seeing that there was proper expenditure of public money. Frequent criticism was heard of public men permitting expenditure to drift into' the hands of incompetent men and it was only right that, when Government money was handed to local bodies for expenditure, the works should be carried out under the direction of a registered engineer. The Bill was read a second time on the voices.

SURVEYORS REGISTRATIONS The Minister of Lands moved the second reading of the Surveyors Registration Bill. He explained that provision for the registration and licens-ng of surveyors was already made by the Surveyors' Institute and Board of Examiners Act, 1908. The provisions of that Act were not sufficiently elastic to enable certain rules to be. made that were necessary to secure a proper measure of reciprocity between New Zealand and the Common wealth of Australia and other places. As an amendment of the Act referred to was requireed for the above purpose, opportunity had been taken to separate the law as to the registration and licensing id' surveyors from the provisions relating to incorporation and the proceedings of the Surveyors' Institute and, at the same time, to bring the law as fo registration into conformity with more modern statutes dealing with similar matters as, for example, the Engineers Registration Act, 1924. This Bill should be read m conjunction with the Surveyors' Institute Amendment Bill, in which were contained consequential repeals and verbal amendments of the Surveyors' Institute and Board of Examiners Act, i*JOB. made necessary by the enactment of the provisions of this Bill. Criticism of this Bill was on similar lines to that of the previous Bill. The Minister, in reply, .said he would refer the Bill to the Lands Committee before which those who considered they had been improperly shut out, from registration could come ami give evidence. , The Bill was read a second time and referred to the Lands Committee. MIXOK MEASURES The Hon. K. .1. Rolleston moved the second reading of the Statutory Land Charges Registration Bill. He said the object of the- Bill was to protect the purchaser of land against charges on land which had not been disclosed to him at registration. Alter a brief discussion the Bill was read a second time on the voices. The Hon. F. J, Rolleston moved the second reading of the Magistrates' Courts Bill, lie explained that the Bill was purely a consolidating measure. The Bill was read a second time and referred to the Statutes Revision Committee. The House rose til! Tuesday.