PARLIAMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1938, Page 5

PARLIAMENT

. SESSION ENDS CONGRATULATORY SPEECHES. ‘.‘Per Preae 'Association—Copyright). September 17, After a busy morning when the price , for (dairy. produce was announced by the-Minister of Finance (Hon. W. Nash) and the date of the election was 'intimated by the Prime Minister ' (Hon. M. J. Savage) the House did .not (meet again until 4.30 p.m. * :' r '• Yor the first half hour, th©: session Was very Informal/ and/ members. took the opportunity to .hold the time honoured mock ;parliap(eht, in which community singing played no sniptf part. ' 1 :/ ./• The Speaker • actually resumed tha chair at 5 p.m. and. Hon. M. J. Savage in moving the adjournment at 5.6 p.m. stated that this wag not only the end of the session' but theierid -of the present Parliament, and" an,; a short time members would be facing.their masters, the electors. He expressed appreciation of those who had made the work of the Government possible; Some of the legislation during the sessjon had been very far reaching inr character; and he ventured to say, i n ( the (interests of the people of the Dominion. The Leader of the Opposition (Hon. Adam Hamilton) (aftey, ‘'iiefciproeating the Prime Minister’s .expressions of goodwill, added that the war news was very grave at the present time and in the".event of-Britajn becoming involved, the Opposition wished % give the Prime Minister the assurance that it offered its. full co-operation to the Government in seeing.; that. New .Zealand took its full part as a unit of the British .Empire.,.. : The House rose, at 5152 p.m., concluding the third and last session of the twenty-fifth Parliament. During’ the session /twenty-four .public hills were passed, and, seventeen local bills and two prjyate ijbills, making a total - of-forty-three.’ -—» -- • The total days occupied'by the session were eighty-eight and ..the meeting .days, totalled / forty-nine. The .hours sat/ before ! midnight were; 282 hours 33 minutes,. and /after inidriight, eight hours;, forty-seven minutes. ■ . The • daily average'-of hours for the session , which" commenced ,on June 28 and ended to-day, was five hours fiftysix minutes. , ,' • , . . .. . • ’