POSSIBLY NEXT WEEK
ADJOURNMENT C'E HOUSE STATEMENT BY PREMIER LEGIST;A T>VE PBOG.ItA MME (Parliamentnry Reporter,) WELLINGTON, this day. The Prime Minister, -the Rt. lion. (1. W. Forbes, informed tho House today that lie expects to complete the legislative programme in time to adjourn next Thursday. TIo indicated measures which should bo passed bv that time, including some which have not. yet made their appearance. Measures requiring attention before the adjournment, comprise the Appropriation Bill, a finance bill, the New Zealand Consolidation Bill, the supplementary estimates, the Education Amendment Bill, the Property Law Amendment. Bill, the Post and Telegraph Amendment Bill, and the Reformatory Institutions Bill.
Mr Eorbes stated that the Reserve Bank Bill would be introduced and circulated, but not gone on with until the session resumed. A small
farms Ijill was in process of being drafted, and, if possible, would be dealt with. Local bills before committees and washing-up bills will be dealt with, as well as Government measures on the order paper, though it might be found necessary to leave some of the smaller ones till after the adjournment. “When?" asked members. “Next week, or next year?" “I hope with the assistance of members to finish by Thursday. They are more or less machinery measures," answered the Prime Minister. lie was also asked if the House would be required to sit; on Monday, and replied in the negative, as the Cabinet desired the week-eml for the opportunity of considering .the finance bills and supplementary estimates, The. Superannuation Bill, he added, would be held over until the House met again. Then the new measures introduced would bo those arising out of the Government ’& policy dealing with the economic position. “If you have a policy," commented Opposition members. To this, Mr Forbes retorted that there seemed a good deal of anxiety about it on the other side, but he could give an assurance that they need not be concerned on that score. *
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17952, 2 December 1932, Page 9
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