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GOOD PROGRESS MADE COMPLETION IN FIVE WEEKS PRIME MINISTER'S HOPE [nv TELEGRAPH —SPECIAL RF.PORTER] WELLINGTON. Sunday ]f necessary, Parliament, will sit to within a clay or two of Christmas to complete its business, but the Prime Minister, the lit. Hon. G. AY. Forbes, said in an interview yesterday that he hoped this would not bo necessary. Mr. Forbes is pleased with the propress which the House of Representatives has. been making in recent weeks, and if that progress can be maintained he expects Parliament will rise in about a month or five weeks at the latest. The Prime Minister could .not indicate whether Monday sittings would be taken as from next week. He mentioned that the procedure lately had been to leave this until the last two or three weeks of the session, and then to sit on Mondays and Saturdays. Mr. Forbes thought that if the Budget debate, which begins on Tuesday, could be finished in a reasonable time, say, one week, the Government would have no difficulty in disposing of tho rest of the business by the second or third week in December.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21647, 13 November 1933, Page 10
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188LENGTH OF SESSION New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21647, 13 November 1933, Page 10
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