WHILE WORK IS WAITING

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 57, 8 March 1932, Page 6

WHILE WORK IS WAITING

So far as the debate on the Address-in-Heply has gone it has been of little use..- It has clarified no issue before Parliament, nor has it decided anything. It has merely confirmed what was well known before, that the Government has a majority in the House and that the Labour Party is in a minority. As that has now been placed in the official records we cannot see why the debate should be continued.' It is unlikely to produce anything more, and its continuance bars the way to the business for which the special session is being held. One member complained, that it was impossible for the House to discuss policy when it had no more information than was given in the Governor-General's Speech. If this is so, why make the attempt? It would be much better to end the debate and give the Government the opportunity to bring the actual business before the House. As it is, the people are not standing by in mute admiration of the strenuous efforts made by members for the rehabilitation of the Dominion—those efforts being for the most part dragging out their speeches until the Speaker's bell rings. The people are either attendingto their own business without consideration of what Parliament is doing or they are noting that an emergency session has begun its third week with nothing done yet.