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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 291, 8 December 1937, Page 10

FULL DAY.

SHOWER OF BILLS.

PARLIAMENT Atf WORK DISCUSSION ON ESTIMATES. TWO AMENDMENTS DEFEATED (By Trlejrrnpli. Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON. this day. With the session timed to end on Friday, Parliament experienced a shower bath of I ii-! a t i-• n } e.st i-rday. When the House of Representatives mot in the afternoon six lulls were introduced by Governor 'Genera Is mes--age, '1 his legislation included the establishment of a school of agriculture, extensions, to tlie Health Act and tin amendment, to the Mining Act, reducing from 10 per cent, to 5 per cent the amount of gold fields revenue to be retained by the Mines Department for collections on behalf of local bodies.

A bill was also introduced fixing the first. Monday in June us the Sovereigns birt hda v.

.Another bill provided for tho reconstitut ion of the Greymouth Harbour Board, making it elective instead of nominative. There will be a hoard of nine members, one being appointed by tho Governor-General and the remainder elected by various local bodies.

The remaining bills were an annual measure validating regulations issued under the Agriculture (Emergency Powers) Act, and the other an amendment to the State Advances Corporation Act, remo\ ing the income limit on homing loans.

Tho IT<uist; meanwhile dealt with the Supplementary Estimates, which were passed expeditiously.

A* a. protect, againstt ' tho vote of £30.000 for assistance to tilt* wheat, industry, Mr. S. (i. Smith (National. New Plymouth 1 moved an amendment to reducc the allocation by £5 on the grounds that Government expenditure had already caused an increase in the price of bread. This was negatived and a similar fate befell a subsequent amendment moved by Mr. H. S. S. Kyle (National, Riccarton) to eliminate the vote for commercial broadcasting seri vices.

The day's work occupied eight and a half sitting hours and the adjournment vu taken soon after one o'clock this morning.