PASSED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 228, 26 September 1941, Page 2

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STANDARDS BILL FAIR RENTS ACT OPERATION EXTENDED IBy Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) ! WELLINGTON, this day. The Standards Bill was further discussed in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon and evening. After several members had been heard, including the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Mr. Sullivan, in reply, the measure was j put through all stages and passed. | During the afternoon sitting a bill ! extending the operation of the Fair i Rents Act until October .11, 1042. ■ was brought down and. with the co- ! operation of the Opposition, was put j through all stages and passed in ' quick time. The measure was necessary as the present extension of the ; l air Rents Act expires next Tuesday. A second bill also came forward in ! the afternoon making px-ovision for administration of the Kitchener Memorial Scholarship Fund. A Coal Mines Amendment Bill making amendments to the Coal' Mines Act. 1920, in the light of ' recommendations made after the ! investigation of the Huntlv mine j disaster, was introduced in the evening. was read a second time pro forma, and was referred to the Goldfields and Coal Mines Committee In j reply to the Leader of the Opposition | Mr. Holland, the Minister of Mines' I Mr. Webb, said that the bill was of j a non-contentious nature.