House to Adjourn By December 10

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 284, 30 November 1937, Page 8

House to Adjourn By December 10

“NOT A MINUTE LATER,” SAYS MR. SAVAGE Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Nov. 29. No difficulty should be experiences by the House 0* Representatives in completing this year’s legislative programme in timo to adjourn for tie mid-summer Tecese by December 10 o» even sooner. As a result of last week ’« proceedings there has been a substantial clearance from the order paper, and the remaining business should occasion no undue delay. When the House resumes to-day. consideration will be given to the Public Works Statement and the Public Works estimates. The Supplementary Estimates and the Appropriation Bill will be intrjduced this week, and three Bills which have been referred to committees—the Electoral Amendment Bill, the Petroleum Bill and the Mining Amendment Bill—will also come before the House. No definite date has yet been fixed for the resumption of the session early next year. The Prime Minister, Mr Savage, stated on Saturday that this would be determined largely by the amount of progress made by the committees investigating the national superannuation schemes. Until he had consulted with these committees he would not be in a position to fix the date for resumption. He thought Parliament wouM resume not later than the second wee.it in February. The actual date would bn announced before the adjournment was taken. “One thing is certain,” added Mr Savage, “and that is that Parliament is not going to sit one minute aftvn December 10. It is not good for bumness people to have Parliament sitting up to the eve of Christmas as it was on some occasions in the past, nor is it fair to members themselves to keep them here so lata In the year.”