EXPERTS’ ADDRESSES

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1934, Page 4

EXPERTS’ ADDRESSES

COUNCIL SEEKS ARRANGEMENTS. JOINT COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSES By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Hon. Sir Heaton Rhodes moved in the Legislative Council this afternoon that in the opinion of the Council, when arrangements were made for addresses by experts or specialists from overseas before a committee of the House of Representatives, the Council should be afforded an opportunity for similar arrangements. An expert on foot-and-mouth diseases, he said, had recently addressed the Agricultural and Pastoral Committee of the House and he thought that addresses of that nature should be given to the committees of both Houses, sitting as a joint body. The motion was supported by several speakers. The Hon. R. Masters, Leader of .the Council, said the address in question had been arranged hurriedly, but he thought it would be possible to have a similar talk given to the Council Committee. He suggested that arrangements for visitors to address the members of both Houses should be arranged by the Empire Parliamentary Association. Sir Heaton Rhodes said the motion had been designed to bring the matter under the notice of the Council and he thereupon withdrew it.