BOWLED OUT !

Grey River Argus, 1 August 1940, Page 2

BOWLED OUT !

OPPOSITION M.P.’s QUERIES. PARLIAMENT BLDGS., July 31 When the House met at 2.30 to-day an urgent question was asked by Mr H. S. S. Kyle (Nat., R-iccarton), of the Prime Minister as follows: Why factories in New Zealand turning out battle-dress uniforms and work'ng overtime on the job have received no decisive reply to an application to the Factory Controller for permission to work on Saturday mornings to fulfil these war orders? Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, in reply, said that the Factory Controller had no knowledge of any such application for Saturday work. The award did not prevent work oh Saturday mornings, except that overtime rates must l;e paid for all of the time worked in excess of the weekly number of hours prescribed, or for work done on Saturday mornings. The limit of the overtime prescribed for the women employed in factories had been extneded in view of the war situation. Another urgent question was address to the Prime Minister by Mr Kyle as follows: Who controls the broadcasting from the House? Is it the Director or the Prime Minister? Last night, the relay from the house was closed down at 10.47 p.m., alter the Prime Minister had spoken to the operator, although the usual time is 11 p.m. Replying, the Prime Minister said that the usual time for closing down tne broadcast was 10.30 p.m. He thought that the House had had “a very good spin” last night.