PARLIAMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2651, 5 November 1909, Page 5

PARLIAMENT.

legislative COUNCIL.

BILLS INTRODUCED

rPr.n Press Association.! WELLINGTON, Nov. 4. c In the Legislative Council this afternoon the following’Bills were introduced by the Hon. Dr. Findlay: Reformatory Institutions, Inferior Courts Pro cedure, Magistrates’ Courts Amendment, Destitute Persons Act, Chattels Transfer Amendment. The Council then rose. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. MUTUAL ACCIDENT. BILL. After midnight on Wednesday the Mutual Accident Bill was referred to. a special committee, and the House rose. SECOND READINGS. On Thursday afternoon the Wellington Water Supply Loan Moneys Diversion Bill (Mr. Luke), Waimari County Bill (Mr. Witty), Auckland and Suburban Drainage Act Amendment. Bill (Mr Baume), and Ellesmere Domain Board Empowering Bill (Mr. Rhodes) passed their second readings.

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BILL. At the evening sitting Air. Craigie moved the second reading of the Canterbury Agricultural College Bill, the object of Avliicli was to provide fairer representation of South Canterbury on the Board!. , , , ~ The Hon. G. Fowlds objected to the Bill, as being'an attempt to deal with the matter in. piecemeal fashion. LJie college, he said,- was a Dominion institution. He' suggested that the Bill should stand over for fuller consideration during the recess, , and, if necessary, he would bring in' a Bm next session to admit outlanders at the students’ college. He hoped New Zealand would never become so parochial as to prevent anyone in the Dominion fiom attending the college. At the suggestion of the Premier, the Bill was referred to the Education Committee after being read a second time. elective executive bill. Sir W. J. Steward moved the second reading of the Elective Executive Bill, which had been introduced at the previous session. „ ~ Sir Joseph Ward, m opposing the Bill, said that the proposal was impossible; as it would bring Government to a standstill. It was wrong to say that the Bill would get rid of the party system. Sir Wm. Steward had not been able to point out any country, save Switzerland, that had adopted the elective executive system. " Mr. T. E. Taylor said that Sir Joseph Ward showed a total incapacity for apjireciating the root principle of the Bill, and was entirely wrong in supposing that Parliament would elect members from both sides of the House. The dominant party would necessarily elect the Administration. (Left Sitting.)