SECURITY BILL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 207, 2 September 1938, Page 11

SECURITY BILL.

QUICK DISPATCH. THIRTY-TWO CLAUSES. passed in COMMITTEE. ACTING-LEADER'S WARNING. I (By Telegraph. Parliamentary Reporter., WELLINGTON, this day. Fears of a long, drawn-out fight in the House of Representatives over the Social Security Bill faded rapidly after the first evening in committee last night " ' len 32 clauses were passed ana House adjourned half an bour before the usual tunc because further clauses could age, which Is necessary when " made in an y measure a monetary appropriation. Actually the pace proved too fast for t'M -ouJn 'Hn l lr tl thou « h St i 8 not to bs» I bill m v * are 139 e,a " sp ß m tlu bill. Many, however, are taken from former pensions acts and employment promotion legislation. There was an opening for general discussion on the short title and a go£l many of the arguments which were hen id in the second reading speeches were repeated until it seemed that the .ovcrnnient s patience was being taxed especially when late in the afternoon Mi. rraser, who was in charge of the House reminded members that thev had talked for three and a quarter hours on tins stage. A reasonable amount of discuss,on would be permitted, he added, and there would be ample opportunity in view of the large number of clauses in the measure. This warning seemed to be a prelude to the closure but the Minister did not move it, his restraint being justified 20 minutes, later when the short Jtitle passed.

. From that point committee discussions were severely restricted to the fictu.il clauses under consideration.

Mr. E. J. Howard, who tu in the chair, occasionally reminded speakers who strayed that their argument had. sounded quite well when he heard them in their t second reading speech. It was a good night's progress to secure approval without division for the whole of the administrative section of the measure, also the clauses covering superannuation, widowhood, orphanhood and family benefits.