POLITICAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 55, 19 October 1911, Page 5

POLITICAL.

THE DAYLIGHT BILL. NO CHANCE OF GOING THROUGH THIS SESSION. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, October 18. . A ,large deputation was introduced to-dfiy to the Prime Minister by MrTl K. Sidey, which, urged that 1 the Daylight Saving Mean Time Bill be put through this session. Sir -Joseph Ward said he was in accord u ich the Bill, but it had no chance of being put through this session. Other n.ensures they would like to see passed would have to be dropped. If the session could last another three week 0 their Bill and others might be gone on with, but an effort was being made to finish the session on Saturday. He suggested that Parliamentary candidates should explain the Daylight Dill to their constituents. NOTES BY THE WAY. Mr Joseph McCluggage addressed a meeting at Mangere Road at 6 p.m. oh Monday night and at the Thirty-three Mile Peg at 8.30 on thesame evening. Both meetings were well attended, votes of thanks and confidence in tho candidate being accorded. The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill lias been returned to the House of Representatives by the Labour Bills Committee with tho.. recommendation that it be allowed to proceed. The amendments made are only very slight. The Labour Bills Committee reported that in view of the late period of the session the Sunday Labour Bill (Mr Fisher) bo referred to the Government for its favourable consideration. The report was adopted. The Field Divorce Empowering Bill, a private measure which has met with strong opposition in the Legislative Council, will not he proceeded with this session. The Hon. G. Jones indicated yesterday that it will probably be brought forward again next year.

The Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, has given notice to move: “That this House, on the - establishment of the new defence scheme of universal training of the youth of the Dominion, desires to express its very high appreciation of the services rendered by the New Zealand Volunteer Force, extending over a period of fifty years. The faithful service of the volunteers to the country under difficult conditions and their loyalty at all times to the volunteer service under the defence system then existing in New Zealand has been gratifying not only to Parliament, but also to the country as a whole.” v A petition was presented to the House of Representatives yesterday by Mr J. P. Luke, from Mrs Meikle, wife of John James Meikle, of Mataura. The petitioner states that she is destitute. Her age is sixty-two. The amount of compensation granted to her husband was not sufficient, she states, to pay the just debts which he was compelled to incur to prosecute his case. The petition is accompanied by a medical certificate which testifies to Mrs Meikle’s delicate state of health. In accordance with his promise last Friday the Prime Minister on Tuesday (says the “N.Z. Times”) introduced a Bill to amend one or two small anomalies in regard to the electoral census. It is provided in the Bill that names appearing on the electoral roll are not to be 'objected to because of the fact that -they arc not included in the electoral census districts All names are to bo restored to the roll, unless the Registrar is satisfied that the elector has permanently removed from the district. It is also provided that every elector who, on the close of the poll, is present in a polling place for the purpose of voting, shall be entitled to receive a ballot paper and to vote as if ho had voted before the hour ol closing.