PARLIAMENT IN SESSION

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2529, 16 June 1909, Page 5

PARLIAMENT IN SESSION

SOME INTERESTING QUESTIONS. (Special to “Times.”) WELLINGTON, June 15. Questions, will he answered to-mor-row. but the usual discussion will not be allowed owing to the pressure of time. The questions are exceedingly numerous? Among notices given today are the following of general interest: — , , „ . Air. T. E. Taylor to ask the Prime Minister whether lie will place thrifty and industrious old age pensioners on the same footing as are those pensioners who have no .propertv, V amending the law so that bona fide homes of pensioners, so long as they produce the pensioner no income, shall not prevent their possessors receiving lull pensions ? , , Air T. E. Taylor to ask tlie Minister for Railways whether it is true > that the report' of the Royal Commission that recently" investigated the charges made against the Addington railway workshops bv Mr. Ronayne, but " hicli charges were subsequently uniesonod lv withdrawn by him, has reported that the charges so withdrawn wore true in substance, and whether the unexpected nature of the re port- explains reluctance to make it tiulilicr Air. Glover to ask the ’Prune Minister whether lie will instruct the High Commissioner while at Home to piohibit auv further assistance to immigrants,'Hind, whether he will at tue earliest- opportunity place before members a- statement showing the numbei of assisted immigrants who have arrived here during the- last twelve months.