POLITICAL NOTES
- REFORM CAUCUS. , A meeting of the .Reform Parly was held lust night- announcement was made as to the result of (lie meeting. li isunderstood that Mr. Massey will be prepared to announce appointments to the Ministry in the course, of ;i day or two, but there is. no' news that the choice of Ministers was.discussed in any "detail at the meeting ,of the party. PUKEMIRO COLLIERIES. The negotiations for the purchase by the Government of an area- of coaibearing laud adjacent to IheTukeniiro collieries are stated to bo approaching a. completion. It is generally understood thai an agreement has been reached regarding the price, liiit. that the transaction' is not yet completed. .MEMBERS TO MEET. A suggestion that one clay in each, week should be/'kept tree of committee work in order that members might have on opportunity to meet and discuss various matters, was made in the House in' lifjil'iriemai'ivifi yesterday by the Leader of the Opposition.. Sir Joseph Ward said that members wished to have an. opportunity to mild meetings, and they had suggested that there should lie no calls to committees on Wednesdays. The Prime Minister replied that he" would take 1 the matter into con- ; federation. If it proved possible to keep committee work away frttm "Wednesdays, he would be glad to do 60. THE MORATORIUM. The Expiring Laws' Continuance Act, as passed by both Houses yesterday, continues the operation of tho Mortgages Extension Act until the eiid of August, 1920. The Prime' Minister explained that this-extension of the Yuoratoriuni was merely tentative, in order to prevent, the law lapsing, and that legislation dealing in more detail with the subject would be , introduced later in the session. The Bill a;i introduced in the Housy contained also provision for the revival and extension- of certain other sections ,of war Acts. The additional clauses were dropped in the House, in consequence, of a protest against their, hurried passage, and Sir IVancis Bell mentioned in the Council that ona result of the curtailment of the'Bill had been to reduce the Government's power to check profiteering. WIDOWS'PENSIONS. A suggestion made some time ago by the late Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. G. W. Russell) that the ordinary widows' pension should be raised to the level of tiie rates paid in the case : ot' epidemic widows was "mentioned in tho Hou6o of Jiepresenlatives yesterday. Mr. P. Eraser.(Wellington said that the Minister had indicated to a Labour deputation that- lie would ask the Government to make this change. He wished lo know, what steps tho new Government intended to lake in tho '■ matter. Mr • Massey asked Hint tho question should be placed' on Ihe order-paper, since he could not give an answer without consulting Cabinet. :
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 287, 30 August 1919, Page 7
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