POLITICAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 141, 7 August 1911, Page 5

POLITICAL.

NOTES BY THE WAY

■ The Administration Amendment Bill introduced by the Acting-Pixinu.r, is a short measure providing that where letters of administration are ar any time granted, to the Public lrust-o under tho Public Trustee Act, 1900 (l.inperial), it shall not lie necessary . upon the resealing in Now Zealand of those letters of administration, for tno stud Public Trustee to execute any sjich bond,-as would have been required .if duch lettei’s had been originally granted by the Supremo Court cf bow Zealand.. : -The Wanganui School Sites Amend ment Bill, introduced by the Minister fop. Education, proposes chat the Wangamp Education Board be empowered , with the approval of the Minister to borrow up to £15,000 from tho common fund of the Public Crust Office, at ; 4$ per cent, interest, pa \he security of, lands vested in the beard. TB'o instrument of mortgage must piov;jde for .the repayment of at least emo-and a half per cent, of the loan each year. The loan money :s to be applied to tho purchase of, a site for public school or technical school, and offices for the board, and to the erection and equipment of such Wauxls had offices. - ; . House of BepresohtativMS divided ' for the first time this session oh JsJtijJaY afternoon, upon ,i question raised by tho member for Wellington *‘ffdutKi When the Acting-Prime MinistOC moved that a committee be set unHtb. assist Mr. Speaker in matters relating to the reporting of debates iUqtT printing, Mr. Wright, as one of flip’- members nominated,. protested this committee was practically Useless, and that he might have been appointed to other committees upon Which ‘ his services would have been of gfpre value. He moved, as an tuncudnjqpt, that his name should lo .struck du£.' The amendment was carried on the voices, and Mr. Fisher’s name was Substituted for that of Air. Mnght. T{io latter again protested when ho wqs nominated as a member of a petitions classification committee. On tmß occasion the Acting-Prime Minister asked the hon. member to with>'hiif ‘ objection,> » remarking• 'that, thpso committees were sot rp under The Standing Orders and that someone must be appointed to tlir-m, Mr. Wright retorted that the committees finomd be fairly arranged. He again mpybd that his name) bo struck out, Mt‘4dri this occasion the amendment defeated,’ bn a division, by 39 vpjJdfi fo 21. ifihr James Carroll informed a “Dofihfbn” reporter on Friday evening iitj; the Government knew nothing about the reported resignation of tl.c High Commissioner, nor mil tlmy am intimation as ■to Sir William HaliJpnes’s intention to leave London for NqwvZealahd next month, as stated in tiie press. The position was simply that ’his term of office had been extended, until August 31, and further Arrangements would be made after tho Prime Minister’s return to New Zealand.