KING’S SPEECH

Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1929, Page 5

KING’S SPEECH

labour innovations. THE PROPOSED PROGRAMME. (United Press Association—By Electric Teleg. uph—Copyright). (Received this day at 1.0 p.m.) LONDON, June 19. The “ Daily Herald ” says Cabinet to-morrow will consider the King s Speech at the opening of Parliament on Ist July, when the Government will make an interesting innovation. The speech will cover the whole df the session of July, 1929 and 1930. Thus there will be no autumn session m the ordinary sense. Tlie Mouse of Commons will be adjourned at- the end ol July until October or November, and sit 'till Christmas, and then meet again in the New Year, the whole reckoning as one session. This will avoid a second del ate on the Address-in-Reply during the autumn. - It is understood that the King s .Speech will forecast a bill correcting pensions anomalies, restoring the programme of building bouses to let which was contemplated under the Housing Act of 1921, subsidies under which have since been reduced, and proposals dealing with unemployment, including the raising, of the school leaving age to fifteen” with an allowance in respect 01. the last year. All these measures will involve additional expenditure.