SESSION BREAK.

Wairarapa Age, 28 May 1936, Page 5

SESSION BREAK.

ADJOURNMENT EXPECTED ON JUNE 5. FOR AT LEAST A MONTH. REMAINING IMMEDIATE MEASURES. (By Telegraph—“ The Age” Special.) WELLINGTON, May 27. Friday week, June 5, is expected to be the final date of the present session of . Parliament, An adjournment will then be taken for at least a month, giving the Government a further opportunity of completing additional items of its legislative plans, which will include some measures it would have preferred to include in the Prime Minister's current programme of “first things first.”

The Parliamentary Law Drafting Office has been particularly hard worked for over two months, because it has been employed, not merely in devising amendments to existing statutes, but in framing entirely new legislative departures which require most careful scrutiny if the resultant Acts are not to be subsequently found defective. This responsibile duty cannot be hurried, as Ministers frankly admit. Consequently, the most optimistic Labour supporters may be disappointed over the first fruit# of the Government's initial session, although they constitute the largest collection of innovating statutes for a generation. The Order Paper of the House of Representatives was almost cleared to-night, except for the Shops and Offices Bill, then under discussion, and several minor Bills intended for circipation, but not for immediate attention. Additional items to be handed, however, before the end of the present session comprise the Mortgage Coloration Amendment Bill reconstituting this organisation on the lines of the former State Advances Office, a measure providing for the adjustment of mortgage obligations in line with guaranteed prices for dairy produce, another protecting tenants from rising rents and finally an omnibus measure under the title of the Finance Bill, the most interesting probable features being an authorisation of the restoration of Public Service salary cuts and the, adjustment of several pensions anomalies, leaving for the future the general question of raising the pensions standard.