"NO SURPRISES"

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 70, 20 September 1933, Page 10

"NO SURPRISES"

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MR. FORBEB'S STATEMENT

, An assurance that the Government's legislative programme for -the session contains no rot|* in pickle for the country was givejn by the Prime Minister (the Rt. p'on. G. W. Forbee) this afternoon.

"No, there wSU be no shocks thds time," he said, in reply to an inquiry. "It will be an ordinary normal session, A fairly Jarge number of Bills will be submitted, but there will ba no 'surprise' legislation. The measures! to be dealt with' are those which have already been indicated or referred to."

Replying to other questions, Mr. Forbes said it Tras naturally difficultto estimate the length of the session, but he , expressed the opinion that if time were not wasted in unnecessary debate;, it should be possible to complefla the business by the end of November. No arrangement to his knowledge had been made to curtail tho length of the Address.-in-Reply debate. 'The possibility of an early tariff sesßion next year . had been under consideration, but the February date was not final. It was too early yet to fix: the date, even tentatively, for calliiig the House together again.

Mr. Forbes apnounced that among the dropped Billls of last session to be proceeded with this year was the Poultry Amendment) Bill, which last session was the yubject of considerable controversy and! to which the Legislative Council in. the dying hours of the session administered the "axe."

Asked whetifcer the Government Superannuation Funds Bill would be proceeded with an its present form, the Prime Minister said that no decision could be mada regarding that issue until tho Housp had received tho report of the Select Committee. Probably the Government would reappoint the committee fio enable it to complete its deliberations and present recommendations to the Government.

It was proposed, the Prime Minister added, to give notice in the House on Friday of a number of Bills which were ready for circulation. The Companies Act wcfuld not be included in the first installment, since there were certain matters connected with it still to be completed. According ti) Mr. Forbes, there is

a possibility that the Electoral Amendment Bill providing for the permanent establishment of four-yearly Parliaments in New Zealand will not be proceeded with this session. "We will have plenty of time to deal with that," he said. "If there is pressure of business it can wait until next session. It is doubtful whether the Bill will be gone on with this year."