QUESTION TIME

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11250, 30 June 1922, Page 7

QUESTION TIME

WHAT M.P.'s WANT *TO KNOW. Mr A. D. McLeod (Wairarapa) gave notico yesterday to move for a return showing the progress that has been made with the surveys of the proposed Rimutaka railway deviation. Mr W. A. Veitch (Wanganui) desires a return showing the rank of each person, whether casual or permanent, who has been retrenched from each of tho departments of State. Mr Veitch gave notice to ask the Government whether they will this session introduce legislation providing for a special license fee to be paid by solicitors, the proceeds from which shall bo set aside as a special trust fund from which embezzled funds shall be ’ reimbursed? Mr J. Bdie {Bruce) desires to ask the Minister for Agriculture how is it that it costa more to crush Nauru ‘lsland phosphate than the landed cost of same m New Zealand, and what is the price of Nauru Island phosphate landed on wharf in New Zealand? Mr B. A. Wright (Wellington Suburbs) is to ask the Minister for Finance whether the Government will grant a pound-for-pound subsidy on all moneys subscribed by the publio for the relief of unemployment? Mr R. Masters (Stratford) gave notico to ask the Government whether it will appoint a produce expert with commercial experience to be attached to the High Commissioner’s office, who by keeping in close touch with tie Home markets would give reliable up-to-date information to the dairy producers of the Dominion as to the state and prospects of the market, and thus enable them to reap the full prices of their products? This question was asked, he said, because of the big difference between the prices realised by the producers in New Zealand and tlioee received by the brokers at the present time.