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THE HOUSE

The House sat at 2.80 p.m. The Hon. W. H. HERRIES.gave notice _ of his intention to introduce the' Native Lands Amendment Bill. ■'■■■■ The Harbour Bill was withdrawn by the member in charge of it, Mr. R. M'Callum. - ... ;". WASTE OF TIME. PRIME MINISTER'S WARNING. A brief discussion on the possible date of closing the session and' the' business to he ;done before that date was raised by a question from "the Leader of the Opposition. ; SIR JOSEPH WARDasked the Prime 'Minister when he proposed to adjourn. Mr. Massey: I don't know.v.As soon/ as the" business is done we will adjourn. '-.. .■'■ . : .-•■■■■ Sir Joseph Ward: When do you expect that? . Mr. Massey: I don't know. A,good deal of time. has. been wasted in the past day or two. '■:'■" Sir Joseph Ward said that he thought the Prime Minister would facilitate the business if he would say what Bills he. proposed to go on with. Mr. MASSEY said he had given the House more information a week ago than had ever been given by any Prime Minister within his recollection before the end of the session. Among the big. Bills to be dealt with was the Legislative Council Bill, which had passed its second reading. The Land Bill which could hardly he called an important Bill, would he dealt with in the course of a day or. two. There was nlso the Education Bill.: Aβ far as he could recollect the other Bills would not present any difficulties. There were two Mining Bills/but he did not think there was any difference of opinion about either of. them. The Cook Islande Bill was a very large Bill, but it could not he called a contentious Bill in any sense of the wordMr. Robertson: What about the Conciliation and Arbitration Act ? ■Mr. Massey baid he was- not in a position to say what would bo done about that Bill at the moment. He hoped to be able to make a more definite statement about this and other Bills on Tuesday or Wednesday. He thought he had indicated enough to ehablo members to go on with" their business, but if ni'.nhers would waste a whole day on a Governor's Message, it _ must appear that they were not anxious to go on with business. He had never before seen such ai thing done. If this sort of thing was to gc on he did not know when the busiwould finish. He did not say. a Bill of'euch importance as the Railways.lmprovement Bill should be passed without discussion, but the nroper time for such a discussion was on the second reading of the Bill. Sir Joseph _ Ward said that tho Bill wculd at ordinary times have occupied three or four days on the second reading. He asked whether tho Governnient intended to introduce any more important Bills this session. Mr. Massoy said ho knew of no more important Bills to coino' down. With reeard to the Railways Improvement Bill he repeated that the proner time for such a discussion as that which had taken place was on. the second rending of tho Bill, and not on the motion to-introduce. So far as the amount, of ironey involved was concerned, ;;11 that Parliament was asked to do was to affirm or deny the need for borrowing t"no" money. There was practically nothing else in the Bill. It committed the House to Mr. Hiley's improvement programme, but honourable members knew .tint the Government could not po on with tho proposals at once. The General Manager's report was a very important one, and it was right that Parliament' should be allowed to express an opinion on it. The only way_

in which Parliament could be given this opportunity was to bring down a Loan .Bill, and the Government had hrought one down. Bfo did not think that there was the slightest chance of the money being raised to give effect to the proposals this year. Tho sum total of what the Bill proposed was to get authority for the Government, when opportunity offered, to raiso money to carry out Mr. Hiloy'e proposals to bring tlio railways up to date.

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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2283, 17 October 1914, Page 9

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THE HOUSE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2283, 17 October 1914, Page 9

THE HOUSE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2283, 17 October 1914, Page 9

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