BUSINESS OF PARLIAMENT.

Otago Witness, Issue 3888, 18 September 1928, Page 28

BUSINESS OF PARLIAMENT.

END-EXPECTED IN THREE WEEKS. WELLINGTON, September 16. It now seems to be the general opinion of members of the House of Representatives that the session may end about three weeks’ hence. Members are already showing a desire to get back to their electorates, and as the days pass and opponents get to work, this desire will be intensified. The principal work yet to be done includes the presentation of the Public Works Statement and consideration of the estimates of expenditure for that department, consideration of the railway estimates, and the reaching of a deeieion on the Licensing Bill. Other important business includes the Kinematograph Films Bill and the Mental Defectives Bill. The latter is still before the Select Committee, to whieh it was referred to take evidence and report to the House. One" more day is expected to be sufficient to put through the remaining clauses of the Estimates presented with the Budget. The Licensing Bill will be the chief business this week. It is expected that the committee stage will be taken on Wednesday, and one sitting will see it through. The forecasts are that the House will amend the Bill to the form it was in when it was sent to the Legislative Council last year. There will probably be a -sitting of the House on Monday, September 24, and there is a-suggestion that the remaining local Bills on the Order Paper will be taken that day. There will probably be only two Saturday sittings, the first being on September 29.

—Shakespeare’s birthplace and Anne Hathaway's cottage are to be open on Sunday afternoons during the summer.