CABINET'S LABOURS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 32, 30 September 1931, Page 3

CABINET'S LABOURS

("Post" Special Commissioner).

PROPOSED SUSPENSION OF INDUSTRIAL AWARDS DENIED DECISIONS NOW BEING MADE

WELLINGTON, Tuesday. No attempt has yet been made by the Prime Minister (Right Hon. G. W. Forbes) to arrange the details of the order of business for the House of Representatives when it resumes its proper routine next Tuesday. Friday will be taken up with the passage of the Imprest Supply Bill. Cabinet is still hard at work preparing its remedial financial programme and Mr. Forbes expects that a report incorporating an outline of the proposals which are to be submitted, to the House on Tuesday, will be the target for a good deal of discussion. Determined Later In reply to .a question Mr. Forbes •stated to-day that the arrangement

of busness m the House xor the remairider of the session will be determined - after members have been given an opportunity to examin© the Government's proposals. When it was suggested that measures formulated by Cabinet would first of all be submitted to a caucus of the Government party, Mr. Forbes said it was not proposed to follow that course; it was not the practice usually adopted. In reply to a further question, he denied that any decision had been reached by Cabinet in the direction of recommending Parliament to suspend the industrial awards. Financial Only "All the matters we have been considering," he said, "relate to the financial proposals. Practieally nothing else has been discussed. We have made good progress and we have reached the stage of making decisions. Cabinet continues to sit daily and there was a late sitting last night."