SESSION'S WORK.
LIMITED PROGRAMME.
PRIME MINISTER'S HINT.
STATEMENT TO DEPUTATION,
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Another clear indication of the Government's intention strictly to limit the coming session's legislative programme was given by the Prime Minister, the Right Hon. M. J. Savage, to-day, when he was asked by a deputation representative of retail traders throughout the Dominion to overhaul the law relating to after-hours' trading, with the object of preventing unfair competition.
"I told them," stated Mr. Savage, "that they had no chance whatever of getting a Consolidation Shops and Offices Act through. We could do nothing less than enforce the existing law. I personally think the overhaul is needed, but we have no time. We have already exceeded everything we promised to do when we came in, and no other Government can lay daim to that."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 128, 2 June 1938, Page 8
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