DECKS CLEARED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20050, 23 September 1939, Page 14

DECKS CLEARED

WAR FINANCE PLANS MEASURE ON TUESDAY MINOR LEGISLATION MANY BILLS PASSED (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Clearing the decks in anticipation of the Government’s war finance legislation which is now expected to be introduced on Tuesday, the House of Representatives yesterday made good use of the daylight sitting by disposing of a number of minor measures on the order paper. Technical amendments to the Meat Bill made by the Legislative Council were approved within a few minutes, the House then passing the Patents Designs and Trade Marks Bill, Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Bill, Native Purposes Bill, Wages Protection and Contractors’ Liens Bill and the Local Legislation Bill.

The last measure provoked a long discussion, Opposition members taking exception to using the machinery of the measure for validating irregularities to secure powers which should be obtained by a local bill properly advertised.

The programme was completed by 4.55, leaving on the order paper two Government measures.. introduced during the day. the Rural Housing Bill providing for improved facilities lor building homes for farmers, and their employees, and the Pharmacy Bill, a technical measure embodying an arrangement with the industry.

Answering a question from the Opposition Leader, the Hon. Adam Hamilton, regarding next week’s work, the acting Prime Minister, the Hon. P. Fraser, gave a definite promise that the war finance measure would be introduced on Tuesday night. When Mr. Hamilton asked Whether the Government intended to debate the bill that evening, Mr. Fraser replied that members coulcl arrange that matter themselves.