§ Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop, supported by Mr. Peter Mills, Mr. John Wells, Mr. Julian Ridsdale, Mr. Evelyn King, Mr. J. C. Jennings, presented a Bill to make it an offence to sell a dwelling-house in advance of the vendor completing the construction of the said dwelling-house and of the works specified in the contract to be undertaken in connection therewith, unless the vendor shall have entered into a contract of insurance with an authorised underwriter, or otherwise secured by a method approved by the Minister the indemnification of the purchaser against failure by the vendor to perform the contract due to the vendor's bankruptcy or insolvency: And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 12th June and to be printed. [Bill 188.]