DAY IN PARLIAMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1939, Page 8

DAY IN PARLIAMENT

DEBATE IN FINAL STAGES

With the number of speakers in the Address-in-Reply debate in the House of Representatives mounting to an impressive total, the discussion is entering its final stages, and the next day or so should see it making room for something else. Interest in the argument has reached a particularly low ebb in view of the time that has been devoted to the debate, and today's speakers, like those of the last few days, have had to scratch hard to uncover new material to talk about. Mr. S. G. Holland (National, Christchurch North) took the Government to task for the "dreadful waste of time in the last five weeks." and suggested olainly that the House was merely filling in time until the Minister of Finance re- j 'iinied from abroad. ! The only other Opposition speaker I was Mr. W. J. Broadfoot (National. Waitomo). who dissected son 1? of the Government's actions bluntly and without apology. He. too. was concerned ibout what the Minister of Finance did ;n Washington on his way Home. The Minister of Industries Commerco (the Hon. D G Sullivan") was the only Government front-bench speaker, and he covered a good deal of familiar ground in a defence of the Government's actions. Hp denied the suggestion that the Government's irrmovl restriction policy bore any relationship to the United Kingdom's nuola policy, and emphasised the ♦'vienrlliness th?f exis^d between the Dominion snH Great Britain. Arbor Day -will be observed next Wednesday, "said the 'president of the j Wellington Beautifying Society. Captain |S. S. Holm, at the annual meeting of members last niaht. As the year had been unusually bu?v. particularly in ; the Planting of the Exhibition grounds by the City Reserves Department arid . as the society's stock at the Point Hals- . well nursery was not fully ready for ■ a large-scale planting, the day would 1 not be observed on the same scale as ! in previous years, but the ai'ea south of the Mount Cook School would be ', olanted. He expected that there would I be a good attendance of members and the public, and particularly of children.