HOPEFUL SIGNS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 251, 22 October 1937, Page 11

HOPEFUL SIGNS.

FINANCIAL DEBATE.

FIFTIETH SPEAKER.

OPPOSITION TALKED OUT.

MINISTER'S REPLY, TUESDAY.

fV>y Toloffrnph. Parliamentary Heporter.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. The half century in the Budget debate " is reached :n the House of Representatives to-night, the Minister of Agriculture. Mr. Lee Martin, contributing the

lifliefh speech since the di«cua»inn -.poriod. He was "not out" when the adjournment was taken at 10.30 p.m. The Opposition having been practically talked out. Government members, with the assistance of Independents, have had the pitch to themselves for the grwiter part of th ( > week.

Thorp nn« hopeful sipns that the deImtc is ,I fji wi 11 rj t,» its close and the reply "f 'he Afirii-»t♦'r of Finance can be ex-I'l-rtiNl on Tuesday night. Mr. Nash has already i mlimtiml that he has a complete reply to the arguments of the Opposition. Proceedings to-day were monotonous mi t lie whole. Mr. Armstrong's speech in the evening criticising chambers of commerce in their relation to secondary industries enlivened proceedings somewhat . He referred to these Institutions us "chainberg of horrors."