POLITICAL NOTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 18, 13 September 1912, Page 5

POLITICAL NOTES.

NOTES AND NEWS

The Government proposes, during the next recess, to consider the question of amending the Workers' Compensation Act. The Lands Committee has reported on the New Plymouth Huatoki Stream Diversion and Exchange Bill, recommending that it be allowed to proceed as amended by the Local Bills Committee. The Bill in connection with Legislative Council reform, of which Mr Massoy gave notice in the House on Wednesday, and which was considered at a caucus of the party the same morning, is a short measure of one or two clauses. The purport of the Bill is to considerably reduce the term of office in the case of future appointments to the Council. Three years is mentioned as the new term. A Bill has been introduced by the Hon. A. L. Herdman to amend the Local Authorities Superannuation Act. It is principally a clearer exposition of the intention of the law with regard to the payment of additional allowances for service prior to the establishment of the fund concerned. There is also a provision that any local authority may establish out of ordinary revenue a special fund for the payment of these additional allowances.

THE EGMONT ELECTION. As an evidence of Mr B. Dive's thorough loyalty to his Party and his complete support of Mr C. A. Wilkinson's candidature, he publishes in another column a letter requesting all his supporters to loyally assist MiWilkinson at the forthcoming by-elec-tion. Though possibly some little feeling may have been shown in the earlier stages of the contest, this has now entirely disappeared, and all are working well together to ensure Mr Wilkinson's return to Parliament as Egmont's next member.