TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 148, 26 June 1925, Page 6

TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS

\HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

The House' of Representatives met' at 2.30 p.m. to-day. Mr. R-. A. Wright (Wellington Suburbs) gave notice to ask the Prime Minister if he' would introduce a Civil Service Amendment, Bill, which, he said, , was long overdue. The late Prime Minister last session admitted that the Bill was urgently^ needed, but could not introduce it owing to pressure of other business. . Mr., R. P. Hudson (Motueka) gave notice to ask the Minister of Agriculture if the Government would continue the guarantee on export fruit next season, and, if so, to what extent? Mr. P. A: de la Perelle (Awarua) said he would ask the Minister in charge of the Electoral Department if persons whose occupations necessitated -travelling from one electorate to another, and were therefore unable to comply with the three months' residence qualification, should not' be disfranchised. •;■.'.. . . , „-- ; M lv F. J. Rolleston (Timaru) gave notice to ask the Minister of Agriculture whether some reciprocal arrangement would be made with Australia regarding the importation of. potatoes. j The Minister of Health is to be asked i by Mr. D. G. Sullivan (Avon) whether a nurses' pension scheme is to be provided for this session s'which would include the claims of. maternity and other nurses who' were practising before the establishment of St. Helen's Homes: ..:. , :.:. . ,■<-.■' .; .■ • ■*';. ; Mr. S.'.G. Smith (Taranaki) said he had been advised from his district that the new railway tariff would-have the effect of increasing the prices, of. coal by at least is per, sack' throughout Taranaki.. -' ' •■■ '■.".■':: .''•;•; • ■•' , ■"'■ . The Minister of (the Hon. J. G. Coates) referred- to' the statement being published in' "The Post" to-day dealing with the. tariff question./ The tariff, .he .said,, .would . not. come .into operation until the' various local bodies had a, chance of considering it. , ■ '. : /(Proceeding.) ■ - 'i..