PARLIAMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19799, 21 November 1927, Page 11

PARLIAMENT.

PROSPECTS FOR WEEK. INSURANCE BILL PENDING. lIQTJOR AND ARBITRATION. END OF SESSION IN SIGHT. [BY TELEGRAPH. —SPECIAL REPORTER.] WELLINGTON, Sunday. The Licensing Bill is likely to be further discussed in the House of Representatives this week and the Arbitration Bill, which has been before a committee, will also have a place on the order paper. Unless stonewall tactics- on the part of Labour Party prove effective there is a likelihood that the clause in the bill exempting the farming industry from the provisions of the Act w,ill be agreed to. Other bills to come are a Finance Bill, a Film Quota Bill and the Appropriation Bill. The Supplementary Estimates will also have to bo passed. It is stated that there will also be an Insurance Bill. This most probably will have reference to the pressing applications that have been made by the local insurance companies in regard to Lloyd's underwriters, or rather the agents for groups of Lloyd's who are doing business here but are not on the same footing as the local companies in regard tq guarantee deposits. As these agents are not companies, they have not been liable to this provision in New Zealand law and so have an advantage over the local companies. The Film Quota Bill will be on the lines of the British Act. It will be circulated with a view to its early introduction next session. The House will probably sit next Saturday if there is any chance of Ringing the session to a close then or early in the following week.