HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1933, Page 9

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

The House of Representatives met at 10.30 a.m. today. Mr. F. W. Schramm (Labour, Auckland East) gave notice of his intention to introduce tho Juries' Amendment Bill. Notice of his intention to introduce the Napier Harbour Board and Roman Catholic Archbishop Empowering Bill was given by Mr. W. E. Barnard (Labour, Napier). The aim of the-measure is to enablo the Napier Roman Catholic Church to acquire the freehold of _ its primary school site at Port AhurirL Tho annual Railways Statement was tabled by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes). - MORTGAGORS' RELIEF. Mr. W. J. Broadfoot (Government, Waitomo) asked the Minister of Justice if the Government would extend the provisions of the Mortgagors' Relief Act so that purchasers of property.acquired after April 17,1931, who owed a balance on tho purchase money might be able to secure protection, under the provisions of the legislation. The questioner pointed out that owing to the continued low prices of primary products, persons in the position he had stated were in serious danger of losing their farms owing to inability to meet their obligations. The Minister of Justice (the; Hon. J. G. Cobbe) replied that amendments to the Mortgagors' Relief Act had not yet been considered by the Government. It would, he added, be difficult to justify interference with mortgages executed subsequent to the passing of the Act, seeing that the contracting parties must have been aware of the provisions of the legislation. ~\ ; (Proceeding.)