ORDER PAPER CLEARED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20044, 16 September 1939, Page 14

ORDER PAPER CLEARED

NEXT WEEK’S PROGRAMME AVAR FINANCE PROPOSALS (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. By disposing of the supplementary estimates, the House of Representatives cleared the order paper of all important business, leaving only a few minor Government bills, and the Alsatian Dog Bill, which has come from the Legislative Council, is a private legislative venture. It is now in the hands of Mr. C. Morgan Williams (Lab., Kaiapoi). The Appropriation Bill, the general financial authority which provides a wide opportunity for discussion, has ! been introduced and will have to be dealt with next week. The most important remaining legislation is that forecast bv the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, "to expand the revenue in order to provide for war purposes.

The acting-Prime Minister, the Hon. P. Fraser, when briefly outlining the plans for the coming week, informed '.he House that the Government hoped to have the war finance measures ready for Tuesday, otherwise it would proceed with minor measures, including the Nurses and Midwives’ Bill, which will be reported from a select committee.

Looking down at the bare order moor, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes (Nat., Hurunui), who at the moment was, acting-Leader of the Opposition, ’nug'hingly suggested that the Government would not have to fall back on the Alsatian Dogs Bill.

“No,” 'replied Mr. Fraser, with mock seriousness, “I hope the House will not go to the dogs.”