STEADY PROGRESS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17947, 26 November 1932, Page 5

STEADY PROGRESS

WORK OF THE SESSION YESTERDAY’S PROGRAMME (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. The House of Representatives yesterday concluded a week of steady progress. The whole day was devoted to the committee stages of the National Expenditure Adjustment Bill, which passed through all its stages, the Mortgagors and Tenants’ Further Rcliof Bill, which is being held up pending the introduction of a further amendment, and the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Bill, the first plausc of which was still under discussion at the adjournment at 5.30 p.m. The most contentious provision .in the National Expenditure Adjustment Bill was the proposal to place ground rents collected by local bodies under the same category as other rents, ami thus make them subject to the 21) per cent, reduction. Several members condemned this clause, but it was not forced to a division. There was also divided opinion on the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Bill, which seeks to give the right to a commission to recommend to tho Government alterations in the number of hospital districts. It was contended from tho Opposition benches that the question of alterations or amalgamations in hospital districts should bo solely a matter for Parliament.