BILLS READY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 171, 21 July 1936, Page 10

BILLS READY.

FINANCE TO-MORROW.

COMING LEGISLATION.

MANY important measures.

(By Telegraph. —Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON 1 ", this day. Although the whole of the legislative programme for the remainder of the session has not been completed, the following hills are scheduled for early introduction to Parliament, according to a statement by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage:— Finance Bill, providing for the restoration of wage and salary cuts made by general order in 1931. Mortgage Readjustment Bill, basing all mortgages on the guaranteed price for dairy products. Prevention of Profiteering Bill, providing for the establishment of a judicial tribunal to control and regulate commodity prices. Industry Promotion and Efficiency Bill, providing for the licensing of industry, with State aid in the promotion of new industries. State Highways Bill, placing approximately '4000 miles of main highways under the direct control of the State. Pensions Bill, providing for in pensions and the payment of invalidity pensions, both to date from July 1. Farm Labour Bill, embodying the agreement reached between the farmers representatives and the Government regarding wages and conditions on dairy farms. Amendments to the Workers' Compensation Act, with probable provision for a minimum rate of compensation. A bill for the amalgamation of local bodies where desirable. The Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, said that although the restoration of salary and wages cuts was the most important aspect of the measure, several other matters were dealt with the bill. The Government's aim as disclosed in the bill was that the restoration of the cuts should apply to all workers to whom it could be made to apply. As previously announced, the restoration would be retrospective to July 1, and provision was made in the bill for dealing with any anomalies that might arise.