WAR REGULATIONS AGAIN

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 285, 26 August 1920, Page 6

WAR REGULATIONS AGAIN

THE BILL IN COMMITTEE

~',.. ....For. the first time since the beginning of the session Government business --'toofcvprecedence on ft Wednesday, and from now until the end of tho session priBills will have a chance of being advanced only with, the ;«approval!and consent'of the Government. In the afternoon most of the lime y-waa taken up with the discussion : of Tcports of select committees, of vhich there'were a number. ,In the course of discussion of the report of n committee on - ■" a housing petition, Sir 'William Hemes took tho opportunity" k> icier lo a scheme propounded by four of the big contractors in Wellington for the erection, at a cost of approximately half a million, of 500 houses in this city. The Minister did not say that the scheme had been accepted, or that.it was going to 'be accepted by tha Government, Nor did ho say it would bo rejected. All that ■'-" he made clear was that it was not yet accepted. Another report from a. select committee dealt -vith ths now-famcas Te Aroha leases. This morion was talked , out at the dinner adjournment. In tho evening tho second reading debate on the War Regulations Kill was concluded, and tho Bill went into committee at once. The opposition of the labour members wag cntinucd, and progress was slow.