Questions in the House

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 153, 1 July 1938, Page 7

Questions in the House

WELLINGTON, Last Night. In the House to-day, Mr. H. 8. E. Kyle gave notice to ask the i’rime Minister whether his attention had been drawn to an article appearing in a local paper with reference to the crew of the coastal steamer Canopus refusing to take the vessel to sea on account of the alleged presence of a rat in the forecastle, and asked if this action of the seamen met with tho ap- j proval of the Government. Air. W. J. I’olson gave notice to ask Jj the Minister of Marketing whether he would inform the House of the date of j tbo arrival at Auckland of ten tons of 1 oranges which were recently thrown | into the sea at that port, and ulso the \ date at which they were formally dis- 1 posed of. Mr. R. A. Wright gave notice to ask L the Alinister of Finance whether in | view of the housing shortage and with I the object of encouraging private I enterprise to erect additional houses, 1 tho Government would give the country au assurance that during its term of office no further legislative restrictions would be imposed upon prospective house-builders. Mr. W. J. Poison gave notice to ask the Prime Alinister whether his statcmeut made last week-end, that “we | must not make one man au institution cn the air. That is all there is to it,” | was au inucation of a change in policy in regard to the radio service, or nn exception was still to be made of Mr. C. G. Hcrimgeour (Director of Commercial Broadcasting) as the chief Government radio propagandist. Air. Poison also asked the Minister of Defence whether his attention had been directed to a question asked tfre Prime Alinister by De Rothschild rc- t cently in the Press “why were the Japanese allowed to photograph harbours and anything they pleased unmolested?” and to a statement made by that gentleman that at Auckland lie had seen a party of Japanese photographing prominent parts round the city with cameras equipped with telephone lenses and compasses and small surveying instruments, and also taking notes of their observations. Mr. W. T. Anderton gave notice to ask the Prime Alinister if he would consider providing protection under the Fair Rents Act to flat dwellers. He added that landlords were extracting extortional increases in rent from workers who were fiat dwellers. Because the weigh-in at ciasgow revealed he was six and a-half pounds overweight, Benny Lynch will forfeit the world’s flyweight boxing championship. His opponent was an American, Jackie Jurich, who intends to claim the title. Jurich is now prepared to fight Lynch at catchweigbts. By special arrangements neuter's world service, in addition to other special 1 sources of information, fs used in the compilation of oversea intelligence published in this issue, and ail rights therein in Australia and New Zealand are reserved. Such of the cable news In this issue as is so headed has appeared in The Times and Is sent to this paper by special permission. It should he understood the* I the opinions are not those of The Times unless expressly stated to be so