MEMBERS START WITH LEGISLATIVE PLANS.
(Special to the “Star.") WELLINGTON. June 23. Members of the House have a limited opportunity of securing consideration of Bills if they introduce them early enough, and no time was lost by Sir George Hunter in giving notice, within the first hour of the session, to introduce an amendment to the Gaming Act, which he nominated for first reading on Wednesday, June 29. Another familiar measure brought promptly to the front was Mr Sidey’s Summer Time Bill, the mover raising the only laugh of the sitting when he mentioned its name. Other private members’ Bills 'placed on the order paper are the Motor Omnibus Traffic Act Amendment (Mr Wilford), Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act Amendment (Mr Wilford) and Judicial Proceedings Regulation of Reports Bill (Mr Fraser), who added that it proposes to regulate reporting judicial proceedings so as to prevent injury to the public morals. The first local Bill wa.» placed on the order paper by Mr Sullivan, this being thp Christchurch City Sanitation and Empowering Bill.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18190, 24 June 1927, Page 4
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