HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1924, Page 8

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

■'. Tho. House, of met'at T. 2.30 p.m. £ Mr. F. F. Hockly (Rotorua) asked the . l.< Minister of Internal Affairs if, in view of ">3 the state of the session, he would recon- *' sider his intention to send the Gaming ~ Bill to a Special Committee. No good ":;■-• purpose would be served by doing so. s,[ Mr. Bollard said he had promised the '■■' Home to send the Bill to a Special Com- \ mittee. He did not know whether he ■ :*■ could go back on that. V Mr. L. M. Isitt (Christchurch North) ;«' raised a -point of order that the Minis- ;■-, ter> reply had been inaudible. jfv Mr. Hockly. said he (Mr. Hockly) had '"„ spoken in his usual tone of ■voice. ' >) Mr. Speaker: "Order! That is not £• the point of order." ';■ Mr. Bollard did not repeat his reply. ;.,' Mr. G.Forbes (Hurunui) asked • ';. •whether it was proposed to bring down ';■ legislation to set up a Wool Board.; '..'■ The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Nos- '.;' worthy) said he had heard nothing of ; ;.\ any such legislation. All ■he had sug- ■; gested was the constitution of a board :V on lines of the previous wool commit- .. tee.' i}] ■■•'•■. TRADE RELATIONS. ■i^ In reply to" Mr. E..:A. Eansom: (Pahiar^ tua), the'-Minister of (the Hon. ;> ,W. Downie Stewart) made a'statement- : regarding the new tariff arrangement be- . tween Australia and Canada, which he 'ii described as an attempt to improve the trade relations between Australia and ~ Canada, which .were not oh as satisfac,^tory a basis as the. relations between -rffBTV-Zeahmd-aTid'Canada.- :—' '■"■' ■■ • . ' (Left sitting.)