PREMIER’S HOPE
No More Emergency Sessions CURRENCY REFORM IDEAS Bv Press Association. WELLINGTON, Dec. 21. The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes), speaking during the debate on the Appropriation Bill in the House to-day, said he hoped that there would be no more emergency sessions to disturb what had been the normal practice. He did not know when the report of the Customs Tariff Commission would be received, or whether it would be of sufficient importance and urgency to necessitate the calling of Parliament together earlier than the usual time. His own feeling and that of the Government was that one session a year should be sufficient. i Mr Forbes said he had given an undertaking that before the session ended he would reply to the request that those with certain ideas on currency reform should have an opportunity of placing their views before a tribunal of some standing. The Government had agreed to appoint a committee to hear these views. The people who held them would be able to state why they held such convictions. Although certain people held strong convictions on the question of the financial system it did not necessarily follow that they were right. At the same time, they could at least bo given credit for sincerity.
A report by the committee would bo made to the Government and subsequently would come before Parliament in the ordinary way. The whole of the proceedings would be open to the press.
Mr Forbes stated that the Royal Commission on Native Affairs would be set up at an early date and that it was intended that a judge of the Supreme Court should be chairman.
Concluding, Mr Forbes, replying to a point raised by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr M. J. Savage), said that national planning would require very rigid regulation, and he did not believe it could be brought about with any degree of success. Objection had been raised to even minor attempts at regulation. The Appropriation Bill was put through all stages and passed.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 10, 22 December 1933, Page 8
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