PRELIMINARY WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 75, 30 March 1932, Page 8

PRELIMINARY WORK

ECONOMY LEGISLATION

FULL1 CABINET MUSTER

i LIFE OF PARLIAMENT

Cabinet. embarked this morning on the task of preparing in-the space of a few days before the re-assembly of Parliament its main economy legislation. There was a full muster of Ministers. , Interviewed at the luncheon adjournment, (the Prime Minister (the Eight Hon. G. W. Forbes) stated that .Cabinet had settled down to.work and that the preliminaries had been disposed of. Both the Economic Committee's report and the interim report of the National Expenditure Commission were being taken together as a basis for opening discussion. , Mr. Forties indicated that it might not be possible for the Government to have all its legislation ready for presentation to the House immediately on the resumption next Tuesday, as a great 'Seal depended on the capacity of the tDrown Law draftsmen to put the. proposals into Bill form in sufficient time, .but he added that there would be enough in prepared form to keep the : House igping. 1 Replying to other questions, the Prime Minister stated that no consideration had yet been given to the personnel of the New Zealand delegation ito the Ottawa Conference, nor had finality been reached on the question of extension of the life of the Parliament from three years to four years, which was; discussed at Government caucus gatherings at the beginning'of the session* ■ ;■' -. ■■■ '.