DOMINION’S FINANCE

Hawera Star, Volume L, 29 July 1930, Page 9

DOMINION’S FINANCE

DEBATE ON THE BUDGET LIVELY DISCUSSION EXPECTED MR. STEWART REFORM’S CRITIC. (By Telegraph—Special to “Tbe Star.”) WELLINGTON, July 29. The principal business before the House this week will be the on the financial statement, and indications are not lacking that the discussion will boi one ot the liveliest of recent, years. When the House meets this afternoon the debate on the Unemployment Bill will be continued, and the Prime Minister hopes that it will be concluded. Following the second reading tbe measure will be referred to a. special select committee. The financial debate will be inaugurated in the evening by Mr. W. Downie Stewart, the main financial critic of the Reform Party. The Government’s reply to Air. Stewart will be in the hands of Hon. F.‘. A. Ransom, Minister of Lands.

ELECTRIC ATMOSPHERE.

WILL GOVERNMENT HOLD OFICE?

WELLINGTON, July 29

The Parliamentary atmosphere is electric in anticipation of the financial debate and its possible consequences to the Government. There is a rumour that the Reform Opposition intends to submit a no-confidence motion designed on sufficiently broad lines to justify Labour support. AIL three parties held caucus meetings to-day for discussion of the Budget situation, and it was gathered from Labour members, who bold the key to tbe position, that they will not commit themselves to any Reform amendment involving consequences not only to the taxation policy, but also to the ultimate fate of the Unemployment Bill and the Workers’ Compensation Amendment Bill. They are withstanding anti-Government pressure from their Trades Hall supporters.