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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 42, 20 February 1933, Page 5

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WORK OF SESSION.

FOUR MAJOR BILLS, SIAtfGHTEJI OF INNOCENTS. fay Telegraph.— Parliamentary Rc-porter.) WELLINGTON, this day. "is the present intention of the Minister, Et. Hon. G. W. Forbes, : *° '""ing the business of the present ■ Kssion of Parliament to a close by next \ Wednesday week. TMs jg an indication that the Government d-es not intend to proceed this j ««SBion -with the Reserve Bank of New j Zealand Bill, the Government Super- | animation Funds Bill, or the Electoral . •unenAment, providing for the permaj :!le nt establishment of four-yearly 1 Parliaments. •Another hatch of legislative innocents, including the Education Amendment, the Amendment, the Municipal j Corporations Amendment, the Building < instruction Bill, and the Poultry and ! Tomato Registration Bills, and several I 'Wai bills, will find their way to the \ wambles. The only measures now likely to be Paseed are the Sales Tax Bill, the . Customs Amendment Bill, providing for toe increase in the petrol tax and the higher duties on sugar and cut and plug P'Pe tobacco, the Annual Taxing Bill, an <i the anticipated bill dealing with Auctions in interest on internal Gov-fcr-ment securities.

■k tie lobbies the opinion is expressed 'hat the estimate of the Prime Minister 18 over optimistic, and that if the Merest Reduction Bill is to be proceeded with, the session will continue * Or » farther week. . _. v