IN PARLIAMENT

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2677, 5 September 1930, Page 5

IN PARLIAMENT

QUESTION TIME , UNEAII’LOYMHNT BILL - )[AKES 91.0“" PROGRESS In the House yesterday there was further talk on. the l'nemployment Bill in 111 - evening, when .ie\vs al—ready wolLvroru were l'vof‘jVCd as mare clause< “'(‘n- 'lt‘zllt with. Numerous [mpg-re; which. have awaited cousidgrutiou l'm- svvora-l weeks were discussed during the afternuou. It. bemr'me more. apparent as time passss that the 'Unvmploymmxt mowslu‘e will hau'a a long and arduous passage and point Wlls, added to this surmise'flry Mr M. J. Savage, the member for Auckland \Vost, and do-puty-lmldor of the :lLbiOvul‘ Party, who declared in round terms that there would not be a. (dame in the Bill funmune tr; citidsm. ‘

Clause 9, relating to l'egistzmti'm, proved :1 stumbling-bkack Vlast ever:ing, as Labour member. desired to have the .129 for registratim rm‘luced from ‘2O to 16. An amendment- in taxis effect, as rukd onut- on tlm smre tlmb it involved extra, taxation. and :1 [urthe: amendment by Mr Savage that.» the dump should be déferred was do— by 47 votes ta 20. Am/thar nnmuumout by Mr W. E. Barnard, the Labour mmuber fur Napier. aiming to alter the umqtilntimv of the Ummplqyment Board, mus- deantvod by 46 to 20.

There rare night (-lmwos stil-l tn he dealth with by the House in committee.

Shortly before the :ldjolu'nmont laat, on-njug the )[iniete'r of Inf-W, Hon. S. G. Smith. whn has charge of the Bill, objected to the Int-9th ef time taken out it. He point-d out that» the Houw Wm- nu the tenth (139 (m the measunx and that 45 memheaa had spake-n on the first. reading.