PARLIAMENT
PROGRESS DELAYED DISCUSSION OF ESTIMATES INTENTIONS NOT REALIZED (From Our Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, November 30. Parliament wasted a day to-day With the end of the session in sight and with excellent progress made during the week it was the intention of the Government to advance four local Bills a further stage and then put through 15 clauses of the Estimates during the day. Thursday not being a day specially set aside for the Estimates, it required a special motion to discuss them and the Opposition took advantage of this mistake in tactics on the part of the Prime Minister to discuss the restoration of pensions cuts and unemployment. It forced a division on the pensions question to be defeated by 38 votes to 25, while the unemployment issue was merely talked out by the midnight adjournment. The House having lost a day will go ahead with the Estimates to-morrow, but as the process of dealing with them is automatic on Fridays, there will be no hold up.
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Southland Times, Issue 22187, 1 December 1933, Page 8
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168PARLIAMENT Southland Times, Issue 22187, 1 December 1933, Page 8
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