PARLIAMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 25, 29 July 1926, Page 13

PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

The House of met at 2.30 p.m. yesterday. Tlie result of the voting in connection with the sale of liquor in Bellamy's was as follows:— Ayes. Noes. Legislative Council 2£ 13 House of Representatives CO 16 Totals 84 29 The majority in favour of continuance was thus 55. The Prime- Minister, in replying to a question by Mr. P. Praser (Wellington' Central), stated . that an opportunity would be given as soon as convenient of discussing, the Locarno Pact. With reference to the question as to whether the Government had given consideration to the Treaty of Mutual Guarantee, Mr. Coates said the regrettable tlolay in the admission of Germany to" the League of Nations and the consequent postponement of the operation of the Treaty had somewhat altered the position so far as the Dominions were concerned, and it was not now intended to take any action until the matter had been fully discussed at the forthcoming Imperial Conference. Sir John Luke was informed by the Prime Minister that the question of alienage : would be discussed at the Imperial Conference. The Minister of Finance (the Hon. W. Downie Stewart) stated to Mr. J. E. Hamilton (Awarua) that owing to the demands on the Stato Advances Fund it was not possible at present to make advances generally on behalf of deceased persons' estates being administered by the Public Trustee. In special cases, however, where it was proved to the satisfaction of the Advances Department that a difficulty existed and the Public Trustee was not in a position to make an advance for the repayment of a loan in. respect of a deceased person's estate from the common fund, the Advances Superintendent would be prepared to consider any applications made to him.