SESSION’S BUSINESS ENOUGH TILL NOVEMBER

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160737, 25 August 1920, Page 11

SESSION’S BUSINESS ENOUGH TILL NOVEMBER

(By Telegraph—Special to ‘‘Herald’"). WELLINGTON, August 24. The first le finite information about Government measures to be submitted this session came from the Tvernier today, when a motion was adopted taking Wednesdays for Government business, '.instead of private members’ Bills. Mr Massey suggested that the House had got through a lot of serious httsi-ne-s already, but nearly tho whole of the Government’s Cnarcial measures had yet to be laid before Parliament. There was a much bigger finance Bill than tho Land and Income Tax measure before the Public Accounts Committee, and woiiif! be available to members within a few days. After that would be the Loan Bill, necessary owing to loans which would be raised this year. The Finance Pill would assume the shape of a financial washing-up measure, and there was the Death Duties Bill, which would ho dealt with by the Public Accounts Committee. Banking legislation would conic forward after other financial Bills had been dealt with. Then there were Consolidations of Counties Acts, Municipal Corporations Acts, Stamp Duties Acts, also a Public Health Bill, and a number of others. Mr Parry; No Proportional Representation Bill? Mr Massey: None this session. Mein bets - Any iicensing legislation? Mr Massey. I would ret like to say na; but not the sort you have in mind. The Premier said he hardly thought tlm se.-sion would end before tbe Ist of Novcmba - . They had made a particularly good start, but the most important work v. as yet to come