TO-DAY'S BUSINESS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 37, 13 August 1923, Page 8

TO-DAY'S BUSINESS

In all probability the House of Representatives will spend a busy time at to-day's sitting. It is expected that the Minister of Customs (the Hon. W. Downie Stewart) will introduce an amendment of the Customs Act to give effect to the resolutions recently passed regarding the removal of the* duty of British-grown tea, and the imposition of the duty on imported refined sugar as well as several other alterations of the tariff. There is also a prospect of a Governor-General's Message being brought down dealing with certain remissions in the amusements tax. Of the Bills on the Order Paper, the first to be considered to-day will be the Land and Income Tax Amendment, which will be committed. Discussion on this measure will no doubt . absorb a considerable amount of time, and after this the second readings of the Public Works Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Bills will be taken. The Samoa Amendment Bill is to be further considered in Committee, and amendments made by the Legislative Council to the Industrial and Provident Societies Amendment Bill are also to be dealt with. If time permits the Companies Special Empowering Bill will be commited, and the second reading of the Rangitaiki Land Drainage Amendment Bill will be moved.