PARLIAMENTARY.
HOUSE OF BEPJiESENTA.TIVJES. LAST NIGHT'a SITTING. LIBRARIES VOTE. (special telegram to standard.) (vmXBVje&EBB ASSOCIATION^ Wellington, This Day. A long discussion ensued, member after member speaking time after time. Mr- Wynn Williams first wanted the vote reduced >o £4,000, and towns excluded,* but afterwards he withdrew first the former, and afterwards tne latter .proposals.. (^Mr Fergus thpixgE^ Jfre rfgjxr principal cities shouid-be excluded, and Mr Barron would exclude all towns.wjth over 5000 of a population. '.• :•" A '\ » , Mr O'Oajlaghan !''' would exclude all libraries which, according to last year '• list had an income of oTer £lOO"a. year. Mr White suggested that; the maximum to anyone library shoulftb'e fixed. Mr Innesjand others said that members were talking m order totk'epgthe discussion going till after 12.30. and, so blocking out all private meiiibers' TBrainess lower down the paper.;-: J> looV/ 1 ' Shortly after the hour named, the com* mittee dirifod on Mr O'Oallaghan'a motion to extend therAc^to Librarief ' having an income 'of over £100 a year. This was lost Wjf4S to 14; : ' f? Mr Dick then moved as an addition to the original motion, that the vote be dis« tributod on the same, conditions as last year; but no library' should receive over After a little further' discassion, this i was carried by 35 to 16, and the motion i aa amended was then agreed to. ! The House resumed," and adjourned at 1.25 a.m. , v ■; , ■.;•
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 216, 16 August 1883, Page 2
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231PARLIAMENTARY. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 216, 16 August 1883, Page 2
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