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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19163, 21 November 1927, Page 8

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BILLS STILL TO COME. A FILM QUOTA SCHEME. [THE PBESS Special Service.] WELLINGTON, November 20. The Licensing Bill is likely to. be further discussed in the House of Representatives this week, and the I.C. and A. Bill, which has been before a Committee, will also have a place on the Order Paper. Unless stonewall tactics on the part of the Labour Party prove effective, there is a likelihood that the clause in the Bill exempting the farming industry from the provisions of the Act will be agreed to. Other Bills to come are a Finance Bill. A Film Quota Bill, and the Appropriation Bill. The Supplementary Estimates will also have to be passed. It is stated that there will also be an Insurance Bill. The last-mention-ed Bill, most probably, will have reference to the pressing applications that have been made by the local insurance companies in regard to Lloyd's underwriters, or rather the agents for groups of Lloyd's, who are doing business here, but not on the same footing as the local companies in regard to guarantee deposits. ° As these agents are not companies, they have been enabled to avoid this provision in our law, and so have an unfair advantage over the local companies. The Film Quota Bill will be on the same lines as the British Act. _ The Bill will be circulated with a view to its earlv introduction next Session. The House will probably sit on Saturday next, if there is any chance of ending the Session then, or early in the following week.