POLITICAL POINTS

Evening Star, Issue 20049, 14 December 1928, Page 12

POLITICAL POINTS

KENT RESTRICTION £F«OM OIJJt pARLIAMKNTABT RePORTEB.J WELLINGTON, December 13. .Successive statutes have continued, the operation of tho Rent Restriction Act, passed during the war, and last session’a cla use provided that this legislation should cease to operate after January i, 1929. A clause in tho Finance Act introduced by tho Government to-night repeals the former limited extensions, and leaves the legislation to operate until there is a specific determination by another Act. * , *■ * A COOLER WANTED. “Bring tho Speaker an ico cream,” interjected Mr M’Dougall (Mataura) during a difficult period m to-night’s debate in the House, when the member for Mid-Canterbury and tho Prime Minister were llatiy contradicting each other. Mr Jones declaim'd that the United Party reached the Government benches through promising cheap money, but now it said there was nothing lor the man who wanted to renew his mortgage. The Government had gone back on its 4-J per cent, money. It could not deliver the goods. Sir Apirana Ngata ; At present. Mr Jones: They dare not go on the London money market with their policy. Sir Joseph Ward: That’s not correct. Ask your es-Einance Minister why? * * * * RADIO QUESTIONS. Tho Rev, Clyde Carr (Timaru) tabled tho following question to the Postmaster-General in the House today: Whether an extension of time has been granted to the Radio Broadcasting Co. whereby the existing monopoly is to bo continued tor a further three and a-balf years? Also, whether tho sum of £IO,BOO has been paid to Amalgamated Wireless, Ltd. (Australia), the agents, I am credibly informed, for a German company, by the Government of New Zealand in satisfaction of certain unproved claims for infringement of patent rights by the retail trade? And whether it is intended to increase listeners’ annual license fees by Is? * » * * LOAN OF £IB,OOO. The Local Bodies Loans Board has authorised the Otago Centra] Electric Power Board to borrow £IB,OOO for Matakanui and Lauder reticulation, and a loan of £3,000 for financial assistance to consumers.