SESSION RESUMES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 191, 15 July 1941, Page 4

SESSION RESUMES

LONG DERATE EXPECTED

WELLINGTON, July 15

The Budget, the sixth prepared by the Minister of Finance (Mr Nash), will be presented to Parliament tomorrow night. The House will resume its session, opened on March 12, this afternoon. A'itcr formal business has been disposed of, an adjournment will be made till 7.30 p.m. to-morrow. The debate on the Budget will be commenced on Thursday night.

Fuller details of the work of the session will probably be announced today after a caucus of members of the Labour Party. The length of the Budget debate is expected to be determined by the course which the Opposition will adopt, and that course cannot be fixed till the Minister makes public the contents of his Budget. Following custom, the Leader of the Opposition. Mr Holland, will open the debate, but the Government has not yet decided on the member to follow Mr Holland.

The prospects at the moment are that the debate will bo impacted, and it will be followed by consideration of the Estimates, on which more time is expected to be given this year than last year, when all but the broadcasting estimates wore passed in three sitting days. As both parties are now carrying on their preparations for a general election, the Parliamentary representatives will no doubt desire to place their views fully before ,the public in debates on both the Budget and 'the Estimates.