FIVE BILLS PASSED IN A DAY

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22823, 23 September 1939, Page 8

FIVE BILLS PASSED IN A DAY

MEASURES ADOPTED IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES . v [From Our Parliamentary Reporter.! ' WELLINGTON, September 22. With five bills put through all stages and passed, good progress was made by the House of Representatives today with legislation on the Order Paper. The last of the bills was approved at 4.55-' p.m., when the ActingPrime Minister (the Hon. P. Fraser), ■who was apparently satisfied with the day’s work, took, the usual'week-end adjournment .until Tuesday •afternoon. ’ Mr Fraser indicated that he hoped to introduce wartime taxation proposals on Tuesday. . , Measures passed to-day were:— Patents Designs and Trade Marks Amendment Bill, Reserves and Other .Lands Disposal Bill, Native Purposes Bill, Wages Protection and Contractors Liens: Bill, and the Local Legislation Bill.' ■■ ■- Twb'ndwSmeasures. the Rural Housing Bill- arid) the;' Pharmacy Bill, were also IntrpdUCe.dLby Goyernor-Gen-efal's ..Message,The/Pharmacy Bill is simply, the redrafting of a measure of the same netije introduced a few weeks Bgo,Vv;.-- •••>* •• • .The- maklngtof - advances tp, farmers fbr the erection •of dwellings, for their owh; Use; or ;fhat - bfVtheir Employees is provldedrforintheßural JHousingßill. Loans-are limited to £750, and-these will be made by local 1 authorities; which wilt obtain the necessary finance from the State Advances Corporation, _