THE SESSION.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18416, 24 June 1925, Page 8

THE SESSION.

-—«■ THURSDAY'S OPENING CEREMONY. FORECAST OF LEGISLATION. .srrouL to "the rr.sss.") WELLINGTON. June 'J'ho la.-t. .-e-slon of the present Parliament will be opened at -'..V) p.m. on Thursday by the Governor-General. Sir C fiai le.-, J-'ergusson. There will b-> a military guard et liei'iour, and the OpeJiUig Win be ar.ullllKlllk'il oy all t„.o ctist-oiiiary ceremonial. Ihe ceremony will bo' perionned m tiio LegMlanvo Council Cniuuboi-, alter -\yiiich L.'ti; Houses will meet. •jiiis, of course, will be tho first- occasion on which tlie present- GoventorGeneral I"'-'" 5 opened a -Now Zealand Parliament. and it is expected that !;<• v, ill ondi'Ovs his pleasure i:t- being among the people of New Zealand, and probably there will bo a reference to the lainous snilor wlio preceded lum Earl Jellieco. .Reference will ho mado to the- death of the late- Prime Minister fMr Massey). There will also be allusion to the variolic changes which have been necessitated in the 'Cabinet-, and theiSpeeeh will give .some indication of Clio legislation which is lo bo introduced during the session. It is understood that tho Government's legislative programme includes Hills dealing with proposals in connexion with advance* to settlors, au amendment of tho arbitration law. accident insurance, consolidation of land laws, stone quarries, and public works. Tho sitting of tho Legislative Council after tho opening ceremony will bo brief. Precisely what the Houso will do has not bean decided. Tiicro will bo formal notices and questions, and it is quite -likely there will bo no shortage- of them. On either Thursday afternoon or Friday afternoon references will bo mado in the House to tho death of Mr Massev, when the Prime Minister will move "that the Houso record its high sense of the distinguished services rendered to New Zealand by tho late Mr Mnsssy, and respectfully tender tr> his family an assurance of its gince.ro sympathy witli them in their bereavement. lie sides Mr Massey. several othej-s who have at times occupied seats in the Legislature have pissed away sinco Parliament was last in session. Ono of llheso was the Hon. J. Grimmond, a member of tho Legishit-ive Council, and another was tho Hon. 0. Samuel. Chairman of Committees in the Leg'slafive Council. Then there was Mt Edward Wakefield, wlm died in England. where ho had lived for many years prior to liis'death, and one other wa.s Mr Kapa, who about thirty yars ago representee? the Northern Maori electorato in the Houso.