PARLIAMENT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19301, 30 September 1932, Page 14

PARLIAMENT

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Sy Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, September 29. The Legislative Council met at 2 30 p.m. Bible in Schools. The religious instruction in Schools Enabling Bill (Sir James Allen) was introduced and read a first time. Address- in- Reply. Continuing the Address-in-Reply debate, the Hon. R. McCallum said he hoped the Government would show an earnest of its belief that the depression was lifting by not continuing its economies in the matter of appointments to the Upper House. Three members— Sir R. H. Rhodes, the Hons. L. M. Isitt and G. Witty were almost due to retire, and he hoped they would be reappointed. There were twenty-five members in the Council at present, and that should be the irreducible minimum. Mr McCallum said he was glad that the Companies Act was being amended, and he hoped that provision would be made to make the hawking of shares a criminal offence. The Hon. R. Scott urged that unemployed should be given further facilities to prospect for gold, as this work supplied an incentive which was lacking in ordinary relief works. The Hon. M. Pagan said secondary industries had been a great help during the depression, as they had supplied primary industries with a market for their products. He regretted that no reference had been made in the Speech from the Throne to a measure to cope with unemployment, which was becoming worse. In view of the fact that the unemployede were finding it difficult to pay rents, it might be advisable for the Unemployment Board to spend some of its money ill pushing ahead some imcomplete railways on works which had been suspended. There was housing accommodation which was only going to rum, and in some districts there was also fuel available. The Council rose at 4.20 p.m. HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES. The House met at 2.30 p.m. Treaty of Waitangi. Mr Tirikatene gave notice to ask whether it was the intention of the Government to give the House an opportunity this session to discuss the Treaty of Waitangi, with a view to restoring to the Maori Race the sacred rights and privileges embodied in that treaty, and “which long had been denied the Maori race, thereby imposing untold suffering upon them.” Mr Tirikatene declared that through the actions of past Government’s in ignoring the main principles embodied in the treaty, the Maori people were fast becoming a dispossessed race. Coinage Bill. The silver and copper Coinage Bill (Mr C. A. Wilkinson) was introduced and read a first time. Address-in-Reply. The debate on the address-in-Reply motion was resumed by Mr W. J. Broadfoot.