HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 57, 21 October 1911, Page 5

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

The House met at 2.30. The report of the Public Classification Board, which recommended that the nominal roll should be prepared by the heads of departments, was presented.

Sir Joseph Ward said he hoped to lay the roll on the table before ’ the end of the session. EVENING SITTING. The House resumed at 7.30. The Government Railways Bill was introduced by Governor’s message and read a first time. The Premier stated that the Mokau report would he the first order of the day on Monday afternoon. The amendment made by the Council in the Patents, Designs and Trades Marks Bill were, on the motion of the Hon. J. A. Millar, agreed to. In committee on the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Bill, a new clause was inserted where the day of an election is ap-‘ pointed a public holiday the election shall be held on the same day in the following week. The Bill was reported. The committee considered the Workers’ Compensation Amendment Bill. The new clauses were explained by [ the Minister, and on the second reading they were added to. the Bill. The Minister’s new clause making provision for a wife and children of a worker killed by accident was added to the Bill. Clause 3 of the Bill was altered on the motion of Mr Poland to provide that any manual worker may obtain compensation for accident no matter what his wages are, but compensation was limited to' clerks, etc., whoso income does not exceed £2OO per annum.

The (Minister moved an amendment to provide that the Act should apply to domestic servants whose term of engagement is for a period of not less than seven days.

Mr Allen urged that there should ho a definition of domestic service. It would not do to include' all in the house,, who wore/ in reality employed in domestic service, whether they were paid servants or daughters or relations of employer.

The amendment was carried on the voices.

A new clause, moved by Mr Wright, to give solicitors the right to appear before compensation Courts, was embodied in the Bill, which was read a third time and passed. r J he Legislative Assembly Bill, No. 3 (Sir Joseph Ward), providing that names appearing on the electoral roll not to be objected to because they were not included in the electoral census of the district, was read a second time.

Wellington, October 21

In the House after 12, in Committee on the Legislature Amendment Bill, Sir William Steward moved that the term of Parliament bo extended from three to four years. This was negatived by 40 to 1.3, and the Bill was reported with slight amendment.