PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17223, 5 October 1927, Page 7

PARLIAMENTARY NOTES.

IN WORKING IVIOOD. CUSTOMS BILL INTRODUCED. SEVERAL MEASURES ADVANCED. (Special Parliamentary Reporter.) PRESS GALLERY, Wednesday. The House was in working mood yesterday. Resolutions amending certain directions to the tariff proposals recently framed were introduced and approved, and the Customs Amendment Bill, with schedules attached, was introuccd and read a first time. A feature of the new alterations to the tariff was a reversion to the old rates in several cases, while outstanding in the bill were provisions dealing with the restriction of excessive bond clearances and power to institute retaliatory tariffs. Progress was made with several Government bills on the order paper before the House rose at 12.49 a.m. NATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND. ADMITTING PRIVATE EMPLOYEES. (Special Parliamentary Reporter.) PRESS GALLERY, Tuesday. Legislation is to be introduced this session to enable private employers to place all groups of their employees, regardless of age, under the benefits of the National' Provident Fund scheme.

In advising Mr A. Harris (Waitemata) to the above cfrcct in the House of Representatives to-day, the Minister in charge of the fund (Hon. R. A. Wright) stated that the dceision had been arrived at as the result of careful consideration by the Government. Mr W. D. Lysnar (Gisbornc) : Where will you get the funds to justify it? The Minister: That point will be quite all right. I am just coming to that. So that there will be no disappointment, I want to indicate that private employers will not be in as good a position as local bodies, who are in a different position. There will be no additional cost to the Government under the new legislation. It will be provided for by the firms themselves.

PROGRESS ON ESTIMATES. 43 CLASSES PASSED. PRESS GALLERY, Tuesday. Up to date 43 classes of the Estimates have been passed, leaving 14 still to be disposed of. It is expected that the remainder will be dealt with on the next occasion the Estimates arc before the House. Amongst them are Education, £3,003.474; Customs, £170,890; Marine, £118,050; and Pcsions, £05,940.