NEXT SESSION.
LIKELY TO BE SHORT.
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WELLINGTON, April 23
In the ordinary course of events it is understood that Parliament will meet about June 25th for the dispatch of business, hut it i s gathered from a letter written by the Hon.' Sir It. Heaton Rhodes, Minister of Defence, that the session will be a 6hort one.
Sir. Heaton wrote as follows to a Wellington correspondent:—''l ani in receipt of your letter of April 18th in which vou enquire whether the Government iutends to introduce legislation to abrogate: (1) the death penalty for military offences during war operations, and (2) No. 1 field punishment. These matters have not received the consideration of Cabinet, and I do not .think it likely owing to the state- of Mr Massey's health and tho probability, in eonsequence of a short session, that therewill be an opportunity to amend the Defence Act, which would be necessary if your suggestions recoivod the support of the Government."
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18365, 24 April 1925, Page 18
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164NEXT SESSION. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18365, 24 April 1925, Page 18
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