FUTURE BILLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 235, 3 October 1936, Page 7

FUTURE BILLS.

, THE FINAL WEEKS. NEW "WASHING-UP" TYPE. STATUTE LAW AMENDMENT. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Since the session began on March "25 a total of 04 bills have been brojght down, covering a wide range in the legislative field. This total includes the local bills and the few private bills, but, in the main, it comprises the measures which give effect to the Government's policy and break new ground. The session is now drawing to a close and it seems unlikely that it will run beyond the end of this month, with the result that a fair number of purely Departmental biils, which do not affect the Government's policy, will probably be held over until next year.

Among the bills still to come before the House are the measures dialing with local body reform, another Finance Bill and the usual collection of "washing-up" bills. Included among these is a new type of "washing-up" bill, the Statute Law Amendment Bill, which will contain clauses amending a number ot Acts in order to give effect to the Government's policy. The financial statement and the Public Works statement have been dealt with by the House since the resumption of the session on July 21, and the following Government bills have been passed: Motor Vehicles Amendment Regulations, Judicature- Amendment, Finance, Prevention of Profiteering, Political Disabilities, Removal of Civil List Amendment, Agricultural Workers, Mortgagors and Lessees Rehabilitation, War Pensions Amendment, Pensions Amendment, Family Allowances Amendment, Law Reform, Land and Income Tax (annual), Land and Income Tax Amendment, and Fisheries Amendment.

Bills at present on the Order' Paper are: Industrial Efliciency, Main Highways Amendment, Railways Authorisation, Judicial Reports, and War Regulations Repeal. The Judicial Reports Bill, and the War Regulations Repeal Bill have both been on the Order Paper since April and are apparently being kept in reserve as a sort of stop gap. The Main Highways Amendment Bill is the sixtyfourth bill to come before the House, but by the time the session is finished the total will probably be over 70.