POLITICAL

Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1931, Page 2

POLITICAL

INDUSTRIAL AWARDS. STATEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER. WELLINGTON, September 28. No attempt has vet been made by the Prime Minister to arrange details of the order of business for the House when it- resumes its proper routine on Tuesday week. Cabinet is still hard at- work drafting its remedial financial programme, and Mr Forbes expects that the report incorporating the outline of the proposals which will be sub. mitted to the House on Tuesday will be the target of considerable discussion.

In. reply to a question to-night the Prime Minister said that the arrangement of business for the remainder of the session would be decided after the House had had an opportunity of examining the 'Government’s proposals. It was suggested that the measures formulated by Cabinet would be first submitted to a caucus of the Government party, but Mr Forbes said it was not proposed to follow this course, explaining that it was not the practice usually adopted. Answering another inquiry, the Prime Minister specifically denied that any decision had been made by Cabinet in the direction of recommending Parliament to suspend industrial awards. “As the matters we have been considering relate to financial proposals,” he explained. “Practically nothing else has been discussed. We have made good progress and we have reached the stage, I am glad to say ef making decisions,” Cabinet sat this afternoon and met again this evening.