POLITICAL NOTES.
ITEMS FROM PARLIAMENT. FI XANCTAL STATEMENT. The Prime Minister has obtained the opinion, of members at to-day’s sitting, on the question of the time for the presentation of the Financial ment, which, he said, could be made ready by Thursday. He decided to follow the usual practice and ask’ the Minister for Finance to read it on Friday night, the debate to commence on the following Tuesday. ARBITRATION ACT AMENDMENT. The Minister for Labour lias given notice that he will ask the House to read the Arbitration Act Amendment a second time pro forma, with the object of referring it direct to the Labour Committee. COMPENSATION FOR STOCK. The Department of Agriculture’s veterinary inspectors condemned last vear 5868 cattle, four pigs amd one horse on account of disease, and in accordance with the Stock Act, £15,092 was paid in compensation. being half the vahie of the beasts destroyed. The State received the modest sum of £1477 from the disposal of carcases.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 July 1925, Page 5
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