QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17807, 5 July 1923, Page 13

QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE.

REPLIES OF MINISTERS. (PE18» ASgOCIATTOXT TBLBQBAM.; WELLINGTON, July 4. Tn the House of Representatives this afternoon, Ministera replied to questions on tho printed Order Paper. Among the replies were the following: Members of Parliament who are also members of Education Boards, should not use the latter position for political purposes, I>ut it should not be necessary to promote legislation to deal with the question of election to Land Boards, for which members of Parliament are ineligible.

Taxpayers already have an'opportunity to furnish returns at the end of July instead of. March, if they apply to the Commissioner for permission. The Government is keeping in mind the lifting ol tne moratorium in December, 1924,. which is causing concern to farmer, with mortgages tailing due. The scope of the State Advances Act is to be widened, with the object of rendering assietanca to borrowers where mortgages are called up. Satisfactory financial arrangements having been made, instructions have been issued to dispose of all recommendations on hand for loans for houses under the Discharged Soldiers SettloBient Act.

The Government ia enquiring into tho Bullot system of preserving meat, b"«t no adv<r© is jet available from South Australia. The process seemed cjfeotiv© for forty days, 'b-it a longer period than that wot necessary for the New Zealand meat trade to Britain.

As'soon as the State Advances .Office la ready to. lend m«»ey for the erection of houstfl up tc W per cent!, of their cost, it is intended that discharged soldiers shall rank with the rest of the community. The Government is considering the question of erecting a high-power wireless station in New Zealand, _ capable of communicating with a similar station in England The Government is considering the question of providing superannuation for nurses and hospital staffs. The Government is prepared to set up a Commission to enquire into the existing lunacv laws trith a view to revising them "where fo?md desirable. It is not proposed to amend the legislation providing for widows' pensions, to enable these to be extended to the wives of men suffering from incurable or prolonged illness.