PARLIAMENTARY SESSION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 227, 25 September 1930, Page 8

PARLIAMENTARY SESSION.

• MAY END OCTOBER 11. ■.MEMBERS FAVOUR, URGENCY. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) • '.. , WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The- desire of the average Parliamentarian 'to bring tho session's business to a speedy- was eloquently expressed in the House to-day, when a Government proposal to accord: urgency to the passage of various Estimate classes was supported by 51 votes ..to 10. In answer fo questions, the acting-Prime Minister, Hon. E. intimated that an . attempt would be made to end the session on Saturday, October 11. ■ Discussion on the subject .was provoked by the action of the Government in inaugurating Monday sittings as from next week. The acting-Prime Minister said that when the ordinary Standing Orders had been tried, the progress had been very poor,' and apparently the House worked better'under pressure than under loose rein. Mr. P.. Fraser . (Labour, Wellington Central): A minority Government has to put up with the disadvantages of its minority. When the acting-Prime Minister asked the House shortly afterwards to accord urgency.to the passage df the Railway, Labour, Internal Affairs, Industries, Tourist, and other votes, he was greeted with the query of, "Are these for the day or the week?" Expressing a personal opinion, Mr. H. E; Holland, said he would oppose urgency as the House had sat late enough at the previous sitting. • "I am asking for urgency so that we may have some control over the Houso," said Mr. Ransom. On a division the motion to accord urgency was carried by 51 votes to 16. The majority of the Reform party, and several Labour members, voted with the Government against Mr. Holland, at whose instance the House divided.