PARLIAMENT

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 265, 5 August 1929, Page 10

PARLIAMENT

LENGTH OF SESSION PRIME MINISTER’S FORECAST Basing a calculation on the progress made to date, the Prime Minister (Rt. Hou. Sir Joseph Ward) stated last night that he thought the session of Parliament now in progress should finish by the end of September. The debate on the Financial Statement, ■which will commence in the House to-morrow evening, is expected by the Prime Minister to last about two weeks. Parliament will have been six weeks in session next Thursday, so that, on the Prime Minister’s reckoning, the session is almost halfway through. Calculations are liable to be upset, however, should members develop a particularly talkative mood, signs of which have already been apparent several times. When the 'louse meets to-morrow afternoon the interrupted discussion on the report of the Standing Orders Committee will be resumed, and is expected to be concluded before the 5.30 adjournment. In that event it is intended that the new standing orders should be at once effective, a procedure which will go far toward ensuring that no all-night “stone-wails” will develop in the future.