DAY IN PARLIAMENT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 30 November 1945, Page 4

DAY IN PARLIAMENT

END OF SESSION FEELING (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) Wellington, This Day. With the end of session feeling obvious members of the House of Representatives are keeping well up with the supply of Government Bills available. Five more Bills were disposed of yesterday, chief of which was the Wool Disposal Bill providing for New Zealand’s part in the operation of the plan for the economic disposal of the huge Empire wool surplus. The other Bills passed were the Ngarimu V.C. and 28th (Maori) Battalion Memorial Scholarship Fund Bill, Diplomatic Privileges Extension Bill, Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Bill, and the Local Legislation Bill. The only Bill remaining on the order paper when the House rose at 11.6 p.m. was the Shops and Offices Amendment Bill. Three more Bills, one of a machinery nature, were brought in during the evening. REMAINING PROGRAMME Details of the remaining programme of legislation which the Government desires to have passed before the session ends were given by the Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) last night. During the day new measures introduced were the Agricultural Emergency Regulations Confirmation Bill, the Land and Income Tax Amendment Bill, the Factories Amendment Bill and the Electricity Bill. The Prime Minister stated that the remaining items in the programme would comprise the usual Native Purposes Bill, a measure confirming war regulations which it was necessary to continue to operate, a Finance Bill, including a number of important clauses, a Statutes Amendment Bill, a Minimum Wage Bill, Superannuation Bill, the Appropriation Bill with the Supplementary Estimates, a Uranium Bill, and almost certainly a measure dealing with the Linen Flax Corporation which it was proposed to establish, A promise had been made by the Prime Minister that he would either introduce a Local Government Bill

following the report of the Select Committee which had investigated the Dominion’s local government system, or give time for a discussion of the subject. Mr Fraser indicated last night that it was not certain whether legislation would be submitted. He added that only three or four of the Bills in the list were likely to cause any discussion.