N.Z. PARLIAMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1933, Page 6

N.Z. PARLIAMENT

LENGTH OF THE SESSION

28 BILLS ON THE ORDER PAPER.

WELLINGTON, November 26

Exactly when the present session of Parliament will' end is still uncertain, but now that the financial debate and the two main legislative measures—the,Reserve Bank ol New Zealand Bill and the Companies Bill —are out of the way it should be possible with anything like reasonable progress to dispose of the rest of the business in the four weeks that remain before Christmas. Although the order paper still lists 28 Government, local, and private members’ bill, most of these are of comparatively minor importance, and many of them, no doubt, will be held over in the final press of business. December 19 is being mentioned as likely to be the last day of the session, which means that members will be in Wellington for slightly more than three weeks longer.

Apart from the measures on the order paper, several public bills are before select committees, including the Municipal Corporations Bill and the Harbours Amendments Bill. The most contentious clause in . the Municipal Corporations Bill is that providing for the union of adjoining boroughs, under which a commission comprising a magistrate, the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the district concerned, and the district valuer may consider and recommend the formation of a united borough. Thi s was one of th e bills held over last session after the House had ‘'taken it as far as the short title in committee. The clause dealing with amalgamation whs' then the principal stumbling block, and should it again seem likely to endanger the passage of the bill, this may be considered to warrant. holding it ever in th e meantime, particularly in view of the early appointment of a commission to investigate the prospects of local body amalgamation and reform.