PARLIAMENT

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 95, 27 August 1923, Page 6

PARLIAMENT

TO-DAY'S BUSINESS. ' t } ■•*",. Per Press Association. / Wellington, August 27. Tlie House met' at 11 olfclocW. Beplyirife to Mr j!>. de La Penile the Hon. W. Nosw'orthy said the .matter of remission tf tasatwn or small racing clubs -was" a matter for the Premier, and would not be overlooked. ' "' __ Replving to Mr'Poland, Hon. "W. Nosworthy said the Dominion Board under the Discharged Soldier Settlements Act was not yet set u*p, but everything was in train for it. In reply to Mr Field, Hon, C. J. ,Parr said Ml was impossible to, bring down legislation this .session dealing with salaries and superannuation jjf stipendiary magistrates. The bill drafted would be brought down next Session. ' . ;In movung for leave to introduce a .Legislature Reform Bill, Mr Sullivan explained, that the bill ma to bring the Legislative Council into the,same relationship.to the HWusc of. Representatives, as the House tff Lords no w stood to the House of Commons under the Parliament Act, Vjz.,-that if a bill passed the House three times, it should be automatically passed;, by the. Council. The veto at present exercised by the 1 Council as exemplified by the refusal to. admit women a s Justices of the Peace, full, civil and political ; nights,, was intolerable... >• Leave was given to. introduce the bill, .which was read a first ..time. . The .House then.went into committee on..sevferal .localAills.