THE DAY IN PARLIAMENT

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 47, 23 August 1930, Page 8

THE DAY IN PARLIAMENT

• A brief sitting of the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon brought to a close a fortnight of work which in the words of the Prime Minister was perhaps tho most strenuous in the history of tho New Zealand Parliament. In the space of less than ten days the four chief legislative measures of tho present session were put through, and the process necessitated long sittings— on several occasions well into tho small hours of the morning—and concentrated pressure of business. The Prime Minister's gratitude to the House for the co-operation that had been shown to him in putting through his most important Bills was expressed in the course of a brief speech acknowledging the good wishes of all parties for his-suc-cess at the Imperial Conference. Mr. Forbes also said that his endeavours in England would be towards assisting to tho utmost tho of tho Empire. A note of humour was introduced by a question by Mr. D. G. Sullivan as to whether he would come back as "Lord Cheviot.'' The Prime Minister's reply was that the proudest title he wished for was "Plain George Forbes," by which he is already generally known amongst Parliamentarians. The afternoon was spent in considering the Estimates of tlv Prime Minister's Department, tho Treasury, the National Provident Fund, and Friendly Societies Department, and the State Advances Ae J count, tho total vote for which was--£159,091. At the close of the afternoon the new member for Invercargill, Mr. Vincent Ward, was formally sworn in, and he took his seat. The House adjourned until Tuesday afternoon.