SELECT COMMITTEES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20002, 29 July 1939, Page 14

SELECT COMMITTEES

NOMINATION BEGUN MINISTERIAL ANSWERS BREAK BETWEEN DEBATE: (l’ai'liium'iitai'y Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Government has made a latc xginning with it-he process of setting ■) select committees of the House of Aepresen'tatives. Their personnel is- the subject oi careful scrutiny so that members Slaving special knowledge can serve m the appropriate committee, while here is also the problem of having too much committee work ns there are 'nearly 20 .sol-ect committees. They meet in the mornings- prior to the' sitting of the House so that the work of a member cannot be gauged iv the length of Parliamentary sit

Most measures of the session come -ndor select committee review and wicier.ce has- often to be faker.- so that wery interest affected by the proposed legislation- can be consulted-be-'orc the committee recommends that i bill nrocced, with amendments which it may incorporate. The nomination of select commit■ecs received further attention at yesterday's sitting of the House, but most of the day was occupied with members’ comment on Ministerial replies o ,their questions. They elaborated •heir quest ions in the light of Minis-‘•-erial answers, while some Ministers ’•epeated their replies in other words. Thus, the day passed as an interregnum between one long debate, and the next, which will be on -‘ho fin.in--.-ial statement, and is likely to commence within a few days.