BIG PROGRAMME

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 198, 7 September 1937, Page 7

BIG PROGRAMME

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• 9 Government's Legislative Proposals LONG SESSION LIKELY

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WELLINGTON, This Day. Ideas that the coming session of Parliament might be a short one, with a snap cleetion in February or Mareh, vanish before knowledge of the big programme of legislation which the Government is preparing. This ranges from finance through industry, transport and public health to defence and international relation®, and is on such a scale that those wRo considered the Government had made a tactical mistake in leaving itself little to do in the third and pre-election session now realise how differently the position stands to-day. In fact, there is so much work to be done in the "new session that it is expected Parliament will be aitting in most of the months of next year, The Government plans, it is learned, are that the House shali rise shortly before Christmas, reassemble in February and continue until May or even June, after which there will be a short reeess and the final session of the present Government will begin. Next year is to Tesemble those depression days when the House was meeting twice a year and when legislators were hard at work most of the time; Widely-spread as were the measures of the last session, the new one will prove a rival in variety, and some of its changes in the national life will be important. The health and national superannuation plar.s, the reorganisation of transport and the beginning® of a plan to stimulate Naw Zealand industry, startirig with oil, in connoetion with which a new eorporation is awaiting the opportuiiity to go ahead, are the chief of tlicm, apart from defence.