SESSION OPENS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 225, 22 September 1932, Page 8

SESSION OPENS.

TRADITIONAL CEREMONY

SPEECH FROM THRONE.

FORECAST OF LEGISLATION

BRIEF SITTING OF HOUSE.

(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary, Reporter.) I;•i- ■ WELLINGTON, this day. ' With/ traditional ceremonies the first main, -of "working," session of the twenty-fourth" Parliament of New Zealand -was opened by his Excellency the Governor-General,'. Lord Bledisloe, this afternoon.- . , . . Nineteen guns boomed out a-salute from Point • Jernyirigham as ' the. ViceRegal party left Government House en route to the buildings; Mounted op'po- . site "to the steps of Parliament House was a guard of' honour^-one hundred strong—composed • of 'bluejackets. ■ from the New Zealand Division of the Royal' Naval Volunteer Reserve. • On arrival their Excellencies' were met by the .officer commanding the: New Zealand Defence Forces, Major-General W. L. H. Sinclair-Burgess, and the senior naval officer", Captain C. Sinclair Thompson. . • Following the Poyal salute,.the guard, of honour was inspected by his Excellency, who was then escorted by the Gentleman. Usher of the Black Rod to the dais in the Legislative Council, where the Speech from the Throne (outlining the sessional legislative programme) was delivered in the presence of members of both Houses'. ProposedTXegislation. His Excellency, in the course of the Speech, arinoiincetL that a bill, to consolidate, and- amend the.law.relating- to companies, would; be" submitted, to bring the law; of New. : Zealand, into with.company lawin England, but modified "so ;as 'to meet local, requirements. T'heee. amendments ; were deemed. necessary in order to-give effect:to the .recommendation's "of the advisory committee appointed for the purpose in 1930. Other bills to be-introduced would relate to the 1 rating of urban farm lands, safety ,'in: ;buildiiig', construction, the amendment of the law concerning Customs, banking, 'superannuation, native j lands;-hospitals and charitable institu.- j tiohs, remedies for livestock diseases, ' the poultry industry, weights and | measures,'and the consolidation of>the ' Municipal Corporations Act and- its I amendments* ■.. . , -,■• j. . A brief sitting of both Houses fob,. \ lowed the delivery of the Speech, and an i adjournment was taken until Friday afternoon, when tributes will be paid to [. numbers who have -died during the list recess. That will be • the: only business , on Friday, and both Houses will adjourn ] until Tuesday afternoon. . \ -'.'■ I