HOUSE TO REOPEN TO-DAY

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 1 March 1938, Page 10

HOUSE TO REOPEN TO-DAY

No Formal Pageantry bills left over from EARLIER IN SESSION rjFrom Our Parliamentary Reporter.! WELLINGTON. February 28, Parliament will * open to-morrow without any of the customary pageantry, since the recess which is now concluded was merely an a di°orninen o the House. The form of opening will simply be that used on any ordinary day? apd there will be no necessity for the attendance of his Excellency the Governor-General (Viscount Galway), who officially opens a new session. The Speaker (the Hon. W. E. Barnard) will take the chair at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow and announce that The House is resumed.” after which business will take the usual course. . .. Several bills introduced during the earlier part of the session last year, but not fully dealt with, remain on the order paper, and provide some business which could be considered in the event of there being delay in the preparation of further These include the Greymouth Haroour Board Reconstitution Bill, which was introduced late last year, and provides for a change in the tation of the board to take effect m May of this year; the Health Amendment Bill, an important measure, dealing with the administration of health legislation, the New Zealand Institute of Clerks of Works Bill, a measure which has had a rather chequered career, but is now ready for committal, the Hurunui Licensing Committee Enabling Bill, which provides for a change of venue of the licence of the Glacier Hotel. Bealey, to Arthurs Pass; and that hardy legislative annual the Alsatian Dog Bill, which originated in the Legislative GounciLand which provides for the strict control of this breed Foremost on the order paper is a long notice of motion standing m the name of the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage), dealing with the ratification of 22 International Labour Organisation conventions. - Tributes will then be paid to legislators who died during the recess and the House will adjourn until Wednesday.