WORK OF PARLIAMENT.
PROGRAMME FOR COMMONS.
MANY IMPORTANT BILLS.
LAND TAX CONTROVERSY.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright British "Wireless. RUGBY, June 1,
The Prime Minister, Mr. Mac Donald, who spent the Whitsuntide vacation at Lossiemouth, left (o-day for Blackpool, where ho will open a new air park, and will be in London to-morrow for the reassembly of Parliament. Mr. MacDonald had intended making the journey by air, but. owing to unfavourable weather he left Lossiemouth by road.
A heavy programme of business lies beforo the House of Commons. The Finance Bill, embodying the proposals set out in the Budget speech, including a scheme for land taxation, will lie the principal measure to come before, the House, and it is anticipated that the Government will find it necessary to closure the debates on the bill, and to resort to late sittings to ensure that the session is brought to a finish by the end of July. Among other important questions which will be before the Commons is that oi unemployment insurance. It is anticipated that the interim report of the Royal Commission, which is investigating the whole problem will be presented within the next few days.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20889, 3 June 1931, Page 9
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