DAY IN PARLIAMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 52, 29 August 1940, Page 10

DAY IN PARLIAMENT

A LIGHT ORDER PAPER

. Another sheaf of questions greeted the Ministerial benches when the House of Representatives resumed yesterday afternoon after the long weekend adjournment, many of them requiring immediate answers, but after they had been attended to the House was confronted with an unusually light Order Paper. In fact, when it adjourned at 9.25 p.m. it had not only disposed of the three Bills appearing on it, but also two other Bills that it never mentioned. Except for a slight hold-up on one clause, the forty-clause Local Legislation Bill was passed without trouble, and in order to fill in time the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser) suggested' a brief discussion on Mr. J. A. Lee's Soldiers' Guarantee Bill, which was subsequent--1 removed from the Order Paper. The Carriage by Air Bill was returned from the Select Committee and passed, and the Housing Amendment Bill was introduced and passed after a fairly lengthy discussion. Today the Prime Minister hoped to have the keenly-awaited Finance Bill ready for presentation, and it is expected that the Statutes Amendment Bill, which has been going the round of several Select Committees, will also appear. These two measures are likely to provoke some discussion, and it seems that if Mr. Fraser is to dispose of current business in time to adjourn the House for a few weeks on Friday he may have to apply some pressure,