PARLIAMENTARY NOTES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16376, 25 June 1927, Page 5

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES

QUESTIONS BY MEMBERS UNEMPLOYED RELIEF (Parliamentary Exporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. In accordance with I'h'e Government promise, the Prime Aimister, .on behalf of the Minister of Finance, gave notice Yesterday of the introduction of the Local Authorities Empowering Relief of Unemployment Bill. , Mr. W. & I'any, from the Labour benches, put a.question to the Govern- ! ment as to the means it proposes to relieve the employment situation so as ' to obviate the continuance of soup kitchens and doss houses, which he alleged have appeared in Auckland for the first time in 2b years. That the Government was taking steps which were widely known throughout the Dominion, was the reply of the Hon. (!..!. Anderson. Everyone knew j what steps were being taken to meet * the. situation. The Government was . subsidising local bodies that' were em- ; plOving men without work. j Mr. Parry: Is that on a basis of 9s ; and 12s per day! j .The Minister: Yes. Mr. Parry: And must the local body' pay that rate! I Mr. Anderson said the local body i could pay any. rate it'chose, but. the, J Goyern|Tientf .subsidy wpuld only ..be on j the* basis.of tfie-figures mentioned.'.* • | INCdtEASEiJ' BANK RATE | Mr. W. 8. Glenn. Rangitikei, has ! tabled a question to the Minister of ■ Finance inquiring what action lie pro- j poses to take in regard to the banks' j increasing the rate on advances. In a note the member suggests that as the Government is interested in 'the Bank ! j of New Zealand to the extent of one- ! third of its capital, some explanation is t . due to the House and the people of the Dominion as to the reasons for the 5 bank's action. GOVERNMENT AND CONTROL j That there is strong feeling in the ! House over the produce control boards | "Was evident when half suppressed "hear j heirs" were heard following a question i % Colonel Allan Bell, Bay. of Islands, suggesting to the Prime JVlinister that in cases where the Government has no financial interest in control boards deal- ! ing with New Zealand produce that it I should withdraw its nominated representatives from these boards.