Session Incidents Queries and Asides

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 417, 27 July 1928, Page 12

Session Incidents Queries and Asides

(THE SCIX‘S Parliamentary Kc pur ter.) WELLINGTON. Thursday. Parliament met yesterday at 3.15 p.m., the opening being later than usual on account of a Parliamentary reception tendered to the officers of the Japanese fleet. In the afternoon a few petitions praying for the abolition of the casli-on-delivery parcels system were presented. and the House went on to discuss the Tourist Department’s report, which gave opportunity for a number of members to advance the claims of their districts to further prominence in the Tourist Department’s schedules. In the evening the second reading of the Rabbit Nuisance Bill, a consolidating and amending measure, was taken. The Bill was read a second time and referred to the Stock and Agricultural Committee. The Auctioneers' Bill was discussed until a late hour. The Prime Minister told the House that the Opticians Bill will reappear when additional technical evidence has been secured. He also said that the report of the Industrial Conference will be brought down to-day. The House rose at 12.10 a.m. The Legislative Council held a short sitting and adjourned until 2.30 next Wednesday. Sharks in the North “Yes, I have been to the Bay of Islands. There are sharks at the Ray of Islands, and they are not all In the sea.’’—Air. M. J. Savage, talking of tourist resorts. nS The Beautiful Barrier Dilating on the beauties of the Great Barrier Island, which is a far-flung outpost of his constituency, Afr. M. J. Savage, Auckland West, at the same time deplored the difficulties of getting there, and suggested, when the Tourist Department’s report was under consideration to-day that better methods of getting there, and better accommodation, so that the island could he a week-end resort for populous Auckland, should be devised.