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Il'NAOliipipi Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received Saturday, ' 9 a.m.).. VANCOUVER,-Friday. The session of tlie Canadian Parliament has just been adjourned, after throe months work during which it has been wrestling with new constitutional doctrines.' • ■
The session was devoted largely to social legislation, including unemployment insurance and the provision for an eight-hour day and a six-day week. Previously such questions had been considered within the exclusive jurisdiction of the provinces and the opposition insists that they still rest there. The Bennett Government, however, went on enunciating a doctrine that by virtue of the Versailles Treaty and League Covenant questions involving a labour scheme became matters effected by the treaty, and so constitutionally came under the Federal Government, and all the measures were passed by both Houses easily.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 April 1935, Page 5
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