A SHEAF OF BILLS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 226, 21 June 1935, Page 10

A SHEAF OF BILLS

Work For Parliamentary Session PREPARING ESTIMATES There is now a prosiveet of a'working rather than merely au electioneering session when Parliament meets late in August. Ministers have been busy preparing legislation, aud already about a dozen Bills are in sight. 8o far, uo outstanding policy measures have been projected, but tlie legislation in hand promises scope for solid Parliamentary work. One Minister has three Bills in preparation, and ho may have a fourth. In addition to that constructive . work for the coming session. Ministers and heads of departments are holding daily conferences regarding, the preparation of the Estimates for final consideration by the Minister qf Finance. Rt. Hon. J. G Coates, upon his return from England. No advice has yet lieen received as to the date of Mr. Coates’s departure from London, hut it is unlikely now that lie will,leave before the second week in July. It is always possible, of course, that a settlement of the protracted negotiations with the British authorities in respect of the meat problem would decide the Minister’s departure sooner than is antici patefl at the moment. The Prime Minister. Rt. Hon. G. W, Forbes, is scheduled to leave London by’ tlie Maloja on June 28. via the Suez Canal and Australian ports.