BALANCE OF SESSION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22974, 28 February 1938, Page 10

BALANCE OF SESSION

SHORT TERM FOR HOUSE RESULT OF POSTPONEMENTS RUSH OF WORK COMING LATER [BY TELEGRAPH —SPECIAL REPORTER] WELLINGTON, Sunday With the postponement of the Gor« crnment's most ambitious social legislation, it is expected that the end of the present session of Parliament will be reached in about six weeks, particularly as the general revision or the taxing system promised by the Minister of Finance, the Hon. ~W. Nash. in his first Budget in 1936, is also likely to be delayed until the final session. There will still be a fair measure of business to be transacted. Legislation will probably be necessary to ratify the recent trade agreement between New Zealand and Australia. Numerous miscellaneous matters will have to be dealt with in a Finance Bill, and there will probably be amendments to the transport and industrial laws. When Parliament does rise there can only be a short recess, as there will be a tremendous volume of work for the final session before the elections'. Owing to the fact that the Christmas recess has only been an adjournment, there will, be no official opening of Parliament on Tuesday. Tributes will be paid to former members of the Legislature who have died recently and then there will be an adjournment until Wednesday. Plans for the balance of the session are likely to be discussed at a caucus of the Government party, which has been called for Wednesday morning.