WORK RUT FIRST.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 234, 4 October 1927, Page 8

WORK RUT FIRST.

LONG SESSION PREDICTED

NO TIME FOR NEW MINISTER,

MR HOCKLY'S CHANCES,

ißy Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Monday. Parliament is going to more than make up for its brief labours of last session. Ministerialists, as indicated in yesterday's telegram, have made up their minds to a continuation of the current session until the middle of .November, if the work contemplated cannot be finished before that time, i Jus is the working session, and if the Government wishes to face the electors with an accomplished programme of definite magnitude they realise that a nretunity 1 * 6eSßion is not the best oppor-

Farming members will press for an early adjournment, because their work on the land will be calling, but this point has been raised in discussion in lobbies and meets with the answer that Parif^fnt has , his « rst duty to attend done when there is work to be

, Cabinet readjustment to fill thp - ac^" c y due to the Hon. R. p. Bollard'* death is definitely put aside until the session ends This is stated on the ■ Pnme Ministers authority. He is satisfied, he says, that he has enough good men to carry on Ministerial work Meanwhile, a further explanation, quite unofficial, is that Mr. F. F. Hocklv member for Rotorua, being the most likely to secure the honour, an immediate appointment would cause difficulty in conducting the business of the HousV during the busiest part of the session, ajs Mr. Hockly is the very capable Chairman of Committees, and his ex penence will be extremely valuable when the Government is putting the new Customs tariff through committee of the whole House. A new at this juncture would be awkward but not so embarrassing possibly as the task of selecting a new Chairman of Committees in a period when there would be a number of disappointed members of the party resulting from the fillino of the Cabinet vacancy. Thus it is not surprising that members have ceased 1 their interesting gossip on the subject ■ of Probables versus Possiblies. 1