BUSINESS BEE HOUSE

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24679, 24 September 1945, Page 4

BUSINESS BEE HOUSE

QUIET WEEK FORECXIi (From Our Parliamentary Reporuira WELLINGTON, Sefltember aSI The House of Representkti.vnl|B start a long, but probably ~ rtaaMß quiet week to-morrow. The PrigKßH ister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser) .'Jjjßlßi dicated that the more legislation, such as that ildaHi nationalisation of the Bank Zealand and of air services, is J|Hb| to appear this week, and in mgMs working days the House will beIHSI clear the decks of business. -tsßiß There are five Government mbmß the order paper of which only toBH| ployment Bill is likely to cauigflHs discussion, and one or two otfaMMß come down this week. There aWHMMI local bills but one of them ltfwffi withdrawn. Two days will be IpWgM the estimates and at the present tSgIE progress a good many votes Shbtjjii passed by Friday evening. Tht-jUH should then be ready to . get dd|M|jE the core of the session. There are conflicting opiniotufJnM whether the Country Quota Bur9Q& Come down this session. The jARH view is that as next year woukriSM ably be too late for the amendrißifli the electoral law to take affect General Election, the GoveMajaMM proceed with the bill. There ever, reports with some baclußga|S the Government has still not RtCMn final decision. 3® Alteration of Boundaries ;|f|j No one can forecast just boWffH boundaries would be altered bttt|M chances are that a change, in adlgWg to creating a number of new civ and cutting rural appendages .'id® others, would add more rural y(Mj| the nine seats at present held by’aSSSj Our members. That number is tional to Motueka which is tain to disappear even if the law ilMj as it is. Some of these nine menwSSjl even if they support their posals generally, may be rduc™tS jeopardise -.their own chances w’dai next election.

An interesting feature of the pgWjl proposals is to introduce voting. This used to be a plaak-mjgfeg party’s platform many years a-gOWmlm the late Mr J. McCombs wag its pnln|p pal advocate. About 10 years aOTaWBre ever, it was dropped. Other ftHMMBpi amendments are to calculate electorates not on population roll numbers and to reduce the xtmmfM permitted in the calculation of CSWgwfe electorates. This margin is in the case of towns, the reason owfc; that it has been thought more dwK® to get exact sizes and still retain community of interest in country, torates. : If the Electoral Amendment BiujSP-* come down, there is reason to bflw%; that the Opposition will not adOSM;-, merely negative attitude. Like wuf ernment members, the Opposition been studying the complications Electoral Act and they are reported Igr have thought of some amendtneMl? which they think should be made. -r