£400,000; and opening up the back blocks, £50,000, making a total of £200,000 for this purpose. The House sat until four o'clock on Wednesday morning discussing the Public Works Estimates, which were finally passed.
A long discussion took place on Tuesday on the first reading of the Workers' Compensation for Accidents Amendment Bill, which, the Premier said, was introduced with the inten tion of making it clear that the Act should not apply to certain persons engaged in agricultural pursuits. The real object of the Bill is to bring the Act into line with the Imperial Act, so far as providing that a contractor owning a threshing mill, and not the farmer himself, is responsible for any accident that might occur. The Pre mier said the law, as regards those engaged in dangerous trades, is to rtmain unaltered. Several Members urged that the whole of the English Act should be adopted ; but the Pre mier would not agree to this. The Bill providing a site for the Victoria College has been circulated. It empowers the Wellington City Council to convey or transfer, to the Victoria College Council the land on Salamanca Boad proposed for that purpose, in exchange for such part of the Wellington College Reserve not exceeding ten acres, as may be agreed on between the City Council and the College Governors, who are em powered to transfer such portion to City Council.
