PARLIAMENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 4 September 1915, Page 4

PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

NEW BILLS

BY TBUtOBAPK—PBBSB ASSOCIATION^ .WELLINGTON, Se P : 3. - in tfce House to-day the Geor<rAtt*«—< Trust Estate' Bill was LtS.&S^ ran ■ P TBlef J 1* £ Milit^y MonoeuvJetB ' W J?^fr Act Compilation Bill, and Fruit Preserving Indttstrv Amendment Bill were read a first time. THE BODGET DEBATE. In the evening the debate on theBudget was continued by Mr J B Mine, who said that it was strange in view of.the expense caused by the war, tnat no attempt was made to taper °f e ijpt"dlture- He thought theresnould be reduction in expenditure on public works, in buildings. Me was astonished to find that a contract had been let, at £30,000; for a. new pol:ce station at Wellington. HV ravored an export tax during the war and he ob]ecfced to a tax on mineral oils He considered the beer duty pro-: posed insufficient. He hoped thi National Government would be the fore--ru^ ncr or an elective executive. \- Mr Veitch referred to the fact that "•Jt j2V ster! l ye L re ,ta king Part ,in thedebate, but hoped they would take theHouse into their confidence. He said that for a long while the producers had had a gcod time, and now members suggested that economies. sh£!d £ practjsed m the public service. Thert would be unemployment :f public works 7*™ t°^i He considei-ed the SS tax should have been doubled years. S ig™"6™ ™uld make light ru>H« rS aMd ?° + esCaP« theincreaV He was prepared to support the Goveminent ™ everything ifcey propo^ Ern^r g Dominion anSSB^ Hoi? CVi Sidey said5 aid he could not nv^L7f t h°s? ho condemned the proposal to borrow two millions in the bommion Itwwavs v apparent that the new taxation had been suggested in a also that heads of departments had been consulted He^ objected to an export tax, for the reason that values might fall and lower the demand for\ F«T nd + i, Thl incraße m the land^ tax, on the other hand, caught far- " mere while prices were good, but would no* o P"res ß them when prices fell w,5 r , H"ds P n u sald that evidently the Budget had been carefully compUedT ?w \ V i°T f P xuttl ng % burden on vo^JJ est able to bear H He considered the Budget represented a fair and honest effort to meet the difficulties of the position. -.Mr Veitch suggested that one of the railway workshops-should be set apart tor making mnnitions, especially machine guns. Both men and material were available. He objected to the proposal to stop public works to make labor available for farmers unless conditions as to remuneration were arranged. National registration was a good proposal. ?«nMr+ G" V\?? nr? said h* did not object to ri«V landowners bein? taxed* but his objection was to the incidence or taxation, which was unfair. £9b preferred a halfpenny increase of %he tax, which would give £150,000. He was not satisfied that the increase in. tax would prove satisfactory, as it would finable shirkers to get off lightly as against the men who made honest returns Tn« House rose at midnight.