PROSPECTS FOR SESSION
SHORT SITTING PROBABLE QUESTION OF DAYLIGHT HOURS. HOUSE TO DECIDE THE POINT. (By Wire —Special to News.) Auckland, Last Night. ' Tire session of Parliament which to open on June 27 will not be a long one in the opinion of the Prime Minister. “I should say at this stage that it will not be long as sessions go—perhaps under four months,” remarked Sir Joseph Ward in an interview this morning. “The Government’s legislative programme now being prepared is fairly substantial if not heavy, but it should not take a great time to deal with it.” Sir Joseph said the Government had not dealt with the question of appointing a successor to the High Commis- . sioner (Sir James Parr), whose term.< will expire at the end of July this year. So far the question had not been raised. The Prime Minister declined to make any comment on the question of altered sitting hours in the House of Representatives. He said the report of the Standing Orders Revision Committee, embodying recommendations, would be presented to the House, which would vote upon the report. It was a matter ~ which the House would have to decide for itself. ..
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1929, Page 8
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