BILL DROPPED AGAIN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 23 December 1933, Page 6

BILL DROPPED AGAIN

REGULATION OF REPORTS MR FRASER’S PROTEST (From “The Mail’s” Parliamentary Reporter) W ELLINGTON, 22nd December. Among the measures that were thrown overboard in the last-minute rush of the session was the Judicial Proceedings (Regulation of Repoi’ts) RilL which for some time had been before the Statutes Revision Committee of the House of Representatives. The committee tabled a report m tile House recommending that the Bill be not proceeded with this session owing to the fact that Hie Committee had not been able to complete its deliberations.

Mr .1 . Frase" (Labour, Wellington Central) said that he wished to know why the Minister of Justice had been so lax in getting the Bill through the Statutes Revision Committee. It was the second occasion on which the Government had introduced the Bill, and he himself had sponsored a similar n casino previously. In addition to that they had the experience of the English la*,-. The Government had been putting Bills of much less importance through' at 80 miles an hour and breaking nearly all the traffic regulations, ’nit it had not found time for this legislation. The Bill had been introduced early in the session and the Statutes Revision Committee had had months in which to consider it, and yet „tlie report was brought down at the close of the session. He hoped that the Minister would make an effort to get the Bill through next session and that the Minister of Internal Affairs would bring down a measure dealing with the nationality of women who had married aliens.

Mr W. E. Barnard (Labour, Napier) said that the Statutes Revision Committee had given the Bill a great deal of consideration, and had amended it in various directions, but just as the members of the Committee had reached finality they were unable to obtain the services of the Law Draughtsman owing to the rush of legislation. Mr Fraser: “Don’t do it again.” Mr Barnard said that it should be possible to put the Bill through early next session and expressed the hope that that course would be followed.