He felt convinced surveyors ■would be out again shortly, —he believed ■ ■ that, was the intention. • Mr Whinray said the track was a more •urgent matter than the railway, which would take years to make, and although he

agreed it was a matter the Government j should undertake, yet such was its necessity ■ that if the Government did not undertake it the public would do so. Mr Dawson agreed with Mr Whinray that the Auckland Chamber should be ap proached to support the stock track proposal. The Mayor said if thoy said the track was ■ a forerunner of the railway and yet laid , down, as they had done, a route for the stock track, it would be said nt once that ! that was the route they wanted for the ; railway, whereas in regard to the railway j they had expressly left out the question of route. Mr Morgan said it seemed as if they must get outside assistance to procure the stools track. Thoy had asked the Government to borrow money to make a railway, and they should also ask them to borrow money to make a stock track. If the Government saw the district was in favor of paying extra for the convenience they might give greater consideration to their claims. He supported Mr Whinray's suggestion, holding that because they suggested a route for the track it was no reason to suppose that, therefore, the railway must go that way. Eventually it was decided to ask the support of the Auckland Chamber to the project of a light railway from Gisborne to Rotorua, and, on the motion of Mr Whinray, seconded by Mr Dawson, to ask the support of the Auckland Chamber to the stock track proposal. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. The President referred to the Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt Bill, now before Parliament. It was not, he said, for debt that a person was imprisoned but for con tempt of Court in failing to obey an order of the Court to pay, and such orders were not made unless the person was able to pay. 