PARLIAMENT

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1929, Page 11

PARLIAMENT

TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS

HOUSE QF REPRESENTATIVES

The House of met at 2.30 p.m. . '■"• Tne Minister of Industries and Com- - . merce (the Hon. j. g. Cobbe) moved -'.'#??*- the report on the cash order, trad- .- ing system, be referred to the Industries ■ '- ajd" Commerce Committee for considcir- ■■: report, the Committee to con- ; :Bider specifically whether the recoai- • mendation that the system shall be con- ■: trolled by legislation should be adopt- • ed, ; and if so generally to report on proposals dealing with the form such ,i legislation should take. ; Mr. D. G. Sullivan (Labour, Avon) " ■' said the Committee had a great deal of work to do, and it might be advisable ■ 'to set up a Special Committee. .'.-,;, Mr. A. E. Ansell (Eeform, Chalmers) " supported Mr." Sullivan, and said tho report should be referred to ■ a Special Committee. ,' Mr. Cobbe said the report was so complete. : that; it need. not. take ten. minutes -■• of: the Committee's time. (Laughter.) ■; ".The .decision to send the report to the '-'-: Committee. was., due- to -a' request from .- ;.members';, ' :, . .. ;.-■■-.' The.-Minister's motion was. carried. '.-.i:~ Mx< ;3. -A. Nash-(Eeform, Palmerston. ' .North) asked theLMinister of Justice ■'. whether he would . inf orai the House ■ "whether a.Police Amendment Bill would be brought down this session and how . soon./ ■ ■;• The Minister (the Hon. T. M. Wil- '. ford) said he,had a draft of a Police Amendment Bill, before him at present. ' It had not yet been considered by "/Cabinet, and until it had been he would :"-t not make a statement. ■ Mr. W. E. Parry. (Labour, Auckland ■-.Central) asked whether men engaged in: ■ cleaning lands for settlement would be '■ given preference.in the selection of . ■ thosa lands for settlement purposes. . The Minister of Lands (the Hon. -'G> Wi.Forbes) replied that the matter had mot been lost sight of and was under .■consideration. _He suggested that Mr. i?arry should -bring the matter up again ' 7yrhen.; the liand Bill was in Committee. r '...'.' (Proceeding.) , .