PARLIAMENT IN SESSION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 750, 5 July 1923, Page 5

PARLIAMENT IN SESSION.

BILLS READ THE FIRST TIME. (Per Press Association.) I WELLINGTON, July 4.. The following bills were introduced in the House of Representatives by GovernorGeneral's message and read a first time: State Advances Act Amendment, the Juries Act Amendment, the Insurance Companies Deposits Act, 1921-22, Amendment, the Stamp and other Duties Act Amendment, the Death Duties Act Amendment, the Harbours Act Consolidation and Amendment, and the Dairy Produce Export Control Bill. In- connection with the latter bill, the Minister of Agrioutyuro stated that the measure was practically on tho lines of the bill as reported from a seleot committee last session. Some alterations were; made in clause 13, bat .they v/ere minor ones. He proposed that tho bill should be read the second • time pro forma arid referred to tho Agricultural Committee, which would take evidence. With the approval of the Houso that the evidence be-printed, the bill was read the second ,time : and referred to the Agricultural Committee.','.,.-., -..,', '"' ABILL. The Hon. J. A. Hanan, moved the second reading of the Election of Ministers and Party Government Reform Bill. He contended that there were many indisputable evils connected with party government, and that frequently national interests were submerged by party interosts. Mr Massey said that ho once thought they should do away with party, but ho now was a firm believer in the party system beoause he was satisfied that no Government could carry on unless they had a strong party behind them. Without that they could not get heir measures hrough, but beyond that he did not think the party system should go. They should not go to extremes. Tho National Cabinet, which was a composite Cabinet, was a success because they had united for one purpose, andone purpose only, to win the war. He did not know how they could have got through tho war period in any other way, but a composite Cnbinet formed to carry out goiv oral legislation was an impossibility. It would not work, and would be no improvement whatever. Tho debate was continued by other members, and a division was called for, when the second reading of tho bill was defeated by 42 to 27.