HOLD-UP NOT UNLIKELY

Taranaki Daily News, 21 March 1935, Page 7

HOLD-UP NOT UNLIKELY

DELAYS IN PARLIAMENT AMENDMENT TO LEGISLATION. ANOTHER CAUSES OF COALITION. PROBABLE END OF SESSION. (By Wire— Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, Last Night. It is practically certain that the amendments the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates is having drafted to the Rural Mortgagors’ Financial Adjustment Bill in substitution for the abandoned 20 per cent, equity provision will not be available for submission to the House to-morrow. In any case, so it was authoritatively stated tonight, the new provisions will not be introduced in or indicated to the House before their reference to a further caucus of the Coalition.

The possibility of another hold-up over this measure cannot be overlooked, since it has been made abundantly clear by a section of the Government’s most prominent supporters that any proposal which will tend to make the position of the mortgagee untenable will be fought to the better end. As the session cannot possibly end on Saturday as planned the Government is now working toward the conclusion of the business on Wednesday or Thursday next week.

The amendments . the Legislative Council will make to the Mortgage Corporation Bill will require consideration by the House, and the Upper Chamber will not rush through the Mortgagors’ Financial Adjustment Bill when it finally receives it. If the next session of Parliament is postponed until August, as some think it will be, the Government will have to pass an Appropriation Bill to obtain supply past the normal period of June, to which it is covered by statutory provisions.

The general fe’eling is that with the general election to be held at the end of the year Parliament’s final session is likely to end in June or early July.