FUTURE OF MEAT BOARD

Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1931, Page 9

FUTURE OF MEAT BOARD

tv. D. LYSNAR'S AMENDMENT

DEBATE ON SECOND READING.

DEFEAT OF CLOSURE MOTION.

By Telegraph.—Pre»i Aaaociation.

Wellington, Last Night. The debate on the second reading of Mr. W. D. Lysnar’s Meat Export Control Amendment Bill was continued in. the House of Representatives to-day. Tile House already had before it the amendment moved by Mr. A. Hamilton that the Bill should be read a second time six mouths hence.

Air. H. M. Rushworth (Country Party, Bay of Islands) contending there was support for the Bill among members of the Farmers’ Union, moved that it be read a second time on August 12. This was seconded by Mr. T. W. McDonald (United, Wairarapa). Mr. D. Jones (Ref., Mid-Canterbury) said it would be risky for the House to interfere with legislation which had been on the -Statute Book nine years and had operated successfully during that period. No material change had taken place in the personnel of the. Meat Board since its inception, and that fact indicated there was no great dissatisfaction amongst the producers who elected the board. He did not think a measure attempting to alter the constitution of one of the most important boards in the Dominion should be sponsored by a private member. Such a Bill should be in the hands of the Government, but the principal members of the Government party had voted -against, it. Mr. W. H. Field (Ref., Otaki) contended that the new method proposed in the Bill for the election of the board was very weak compared with that at present in operation. After Messrs. J. Bitchener and G. R. Sykes had spoken opposing the Bill, Mr. J. T. Hogan (Ind., Rangitikei) said he was in favour of the measure and wanted a vote to be taken;on it. The House had spent nearly two days on the second reading, but there seemed to be some members who were determined it should not rach a division. He therefore moved that the question be now put. The Speaker said it was . true the Bill had been before the House on two occasions, and he did not think it would be an infringement of the rights of the minority if the closure motion were put, Mr. Hogan’s motion was defeated by 31 votes to 29, and the debatd-was continued by Messrs. A. M. Samuel and F. Waite until the rising of the House at 5.30 p.m. till 2.30 on Tuesday. > .