THE SESSION

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 18, 19 October 1936, Page 10

THE SESSION

NEARING AN END

WORK STILL TO BE DONE

An assurance that the present session of Parliament would end on Friday or Saturday week'was given by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) today. He said that if Parliament went on sitting indefinitely .there would always be work for it to * do.

The Prime Minister said Bills that would have to be passed. before the recess commenced included the Agricultural Emergency Powers Regulations .Bill- (which merely gives legislative effect to Orders in Council. already made), the Education Amendment Bill (dealing very, largely, with the. readmission of the five-year-olds to the schools), the Native Land Amendment Bill, the Wool Industry Promotion Bill, (which provides for a levy for research purposes, but which will not be proceeded with if any opposition manifests itself), the Naval Board and Auckland Harbour. Board Bill (which gives effect to .an agreement already signed),'the .Post and Telegraph Department Amendment Bill (which sets up a tribunal to deal with conditions in the service), arid four washing up Bills—the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Bill, Local Legislation Bill,' Native Purposes Bill, and Statutes Amendment Bill.

Mr. Savage said there: might be one or two other small measures to be passed, but the Bills he had mentioned represented the major portion of the session's work.